A first-person monologue reflecting on personal leadership in the contexts of fatherhood, marriage, and work. The speaker contrasts ‘regular’ vs. ‘world-class’ roles and describes a deliberate shift to the mindset of giving “100%, 100% of the time,” acknowledging frequent failure but valuing the intention and its positive effect. The piece references a podcast with Andy Stanley as an influence.
A world class father would do things differently than a regular father. And I'm not preaching at you because I've done all of it wrong many, many times. And I still slip into selfish ways in terms of personal leadership, though, and the questions that we need to ask ourselves, they need to be different if you want to play the game of life and business at a higher level. And the other thought there, and I think this came out of this podcast with Andy Stanley, is that I remember in my marriage, you know, maybe during that time, maybe six, seven, eight years in, it was very much like 50, 50, like, how are you showing up? How am I showing up in like this weird dance? And I don't know if you felt it in a marriage. And I made a decision in that moment around this. What would a world class husband do? What would a world class father do? What would a world class leader do to give 100%, 100% of the time? And I fail every day. So I fail every day because I do not give 100%, 100% of the time. Yet my intention most of the time is to do that. And it's very different than like trying to keep score with someone. How are you? Are you giving more? Am I giving more? Like, hey, you're never, you know, quite doing what you should be doing sort of mentality. So I made that shift to 100%, 100% of the time. And it's made all the different.
