Frequency matters...
How often do you work out?
How often do you have a strategic planning session?
How often do you mediate?
How often do you reset your priorities? How often do you DEFINE your priorities?
How often do you take a day for yourself to think?
How often do you meet with your direct reports?
How often do you read a book?
How often do you hold hands?
How often do you hug your children?
How often do you have a meaningful conversation?
How OFTEN...
We all have the things we SAY we do... and we are seldom lying...
but FREQUENCY separates what we tell people our story is from who we actually are...
I say I meditate... but I really don't... not any more... last time I did it was maybe 4 or 5 months ago. It is not part of my behavior set, it is not part of WHO I AM today. I want to do it. I hope to do it. I will build it into my routine... but I do not live the benefits of doing it becuase I don't do it frequently enough.
On the surface, we talk about a lot of things that we say we "DO"... but the TRUTH is that ONLY some of those things are things that truly DEFINE who we actually ARE...
FREQUENCY MATTERS because it defines who we SAY we are from who we ACTUALLY are...
WE ARE TODAY... WHAT WE DO REGULARLY...
That doesn't mean its who we will always be... but WHO we ARE WON"T CHANGE until we CHANGE THE FREQUENCY of our choices...
IF we want to be healthy - we need to work out and eat healthy frequently.
IF we want to be "Strategic" - we need to read and think and learn about strategy frequently.
IF we want to evolve, we have to do with frequency the things required to learn and grow.
Life has various CRANKS... and FREQUENCY is turning the crank... it's feeding ourselves... it builds mindfulness... it creates depth, muscle memory, intuition... it creates momentum.
AND, frequency of things that are unhealthy, or unproductive do the exact opposite... they create momentum in the wrong directions...
I don't believe in absolutes... I believe very few things are truly BAD for you (unless done frequently), and I don't believe doing "productive" things really matter (unless done frequently)...
I believe in FREQUENCY... because I know FREQUENCY matters...
Because harmony is created in moments... and FREQUENCY speaks to the quantity of moments that you ENGAGE & ACT on the WANT...
And, harmony begets harmony... and disharmony begets disharmony...
FREQUENCY begets momentum...
So choose wisely what you do often, because time is a zero-sum game...
And, ACCEPT the TRUTH that what we do most often defines who we are in this moment. And, to change our trajectory, or our direction, the only way to achieve that is to change not only
WHAT WE DO & WHAT WE THINK ABOUT
but
MOST IMPORTANTLY...
HOW OFTEN WE ENGAGE IN "THE DOING" of it...
eating one healthy meal won't make you healthy
reading one strategy book won't make you strategic
drinking one vodka on the rocks won't make you an alcoholic
FREQUENCY MATTERS?
What do you do OFTEN?
What SHOULD you do MORE OFTEN?
To become who you dream of becoming?
in harmony,
Nestor