Workout: Dread vs. Excitement

Dread versus excitement. Even great leaders can start to feel dread about the day. Ugh. Now I'm gonna have to go manage more complaints from other people. Ugh. I'm gonna have to manage the attitude of my snarky husband. Ugh. I'm gonna have to deal with that grumpy person over here. Ugh. I gotta answer all those emails. Ugh. So even in the context of abundance, joy, the good positive energy you can have when every day can start to feel a little Groundhog Day, it can start to feel like dread. Even Bill Murray, one of the most fun people on the planet in Groundhog's Day, starts to have dread. And I want you to be attentive to your energy. Over these last seven days, how many days did you feel a little bit of dread? And I want to share with you, it's okay, because you might not have been aware of that dread. It's not about your life. The dread's not about the kids. It's not about the husband. It's not about Dread's not about your health. The dread that comes, that existential dilemma that comes in in times of turmoil is actually not anything happening right now. It's a disconnection from the future. Sometimes we get it wrong. We think everything around us is wrong. Actually. We just don't have a connection. We don't have something to be excited about. And so how are we going to win the year? Today's a pivot. Today you are going to design back into your weeks, back into your months, and back by the end of this year. You are going to design into your days on purpose, visualization of the future, every day. Visualization of the future, every single day. Just as you might meditate every day, I want to turn that into a purposeful, deliberate visualization of something that you are excited about, you are thrilled about, you can't wait to happen. I don't care if it's next week. I don't care if it's a big thing or a small thing. I don't care if it's December. We've got to find those things, and we need more of them than you have been granting yourself in the last 60 days. Many of you have not granted yourself anything to be excited about in the last 60 days. We need to build in excitement. We need to build in anticipation, optimism, thrill, adventure. We need to build those things back in. That's how you are going to win this year.