This week my calendar looks like this:
Monday
Kid 1 Soccer practice
Tuesday
Kid 2 Baseball game
Wednesday
Kid 1 soccer practice
Kid 2 Flag football game
Thursday
Kid 1 Flag football practice
Kid 2 Baseball practice
Friday
Kid 2 Baseball practice & baseball game for the second team he plays on
Saturday
Kid 1 soccer games at 10:30 and 11:30
Kid 2 Baseball games at 8:00 and 10:30 for one team and 2:00 baseball game for another team
Sunday
Kid 1 results of Saturday’s soccer determine placement for Sunday tournament brackets with 1-3 games, Flag football practice 5:15-6:45
Kid 2 results of Saturday’s baseball games determine placement for Sunday tournament bracket with 1-3 games.
Here’s where I’m heading with all of this.
I know you’re busy, but what I’m getting at is that it doesn’t get any better. I’m out of the house all day Saturday and Sunday at baseball tournaments every single weekend from September 1st through October 31st.
I’m doing more of what I love now, but I’m just as busy if not busier than I’ve ever been in my entire life.
Prioritize and Execute
This is an idea I got from the book “Extreme Ownership.” It’s written by two retired Navy SEALs (Jocko Willink and Leif Babin), and they tell stories about being busy.
Picture an injured SEAL, pinned down under enemy fire, with no cover, and communication has been cut off. What do you do when everything is important? You do the only thing you can: prioritize and execute. You take a breath. Decide on the single most important next step, and then you take it. Then you do that again and again.
Don’t blow that one off. It’s gold. Let it sink in for a few minutes.
While it’s sinking in, let me give you something to prioritize.
The next edition of the PAES newsletter goes to the printer soon. You’re going to want to sign up for that one. November’s is a doozy, and I can’t wait to ship it out and watch brand new PA-Cs start landing jobs all over the country. I personally think that the newsletter is worth about 10x the cover price. Sometimes that’s hard to see when we talk about taking notes. With the November issue, there’s no question. It’s worth 100x the cover price easy. Do the math; just one month not working and it’s closer to 150x the cover price.
Hmmm. Methinks that’s not a risk worth taking.
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Brian
