Hello, welcome to the Report Card. Every day is continuous test with no subject. What's your answer? What's meaningful? How many times after we get that job, after we get that position, after we get that acceptance, after we get that degree, after we get that seemingly insurmountable one goal, do we disappear in the background? Do we wither away? Do we become forgotten? Do we ease into the trap of leisure? Or will you lead yourself through the resistance practice?
What do you have on Valentine's Day? Season 56, 56, playlist, episode 600. Thank you. You're with that. You're with that. Let's start it. Song of the Day. This playlist, I'm loving. If you hear me, last episode I was uncertain, but now I had a flood of Shazam songs that finally connected and now I was able to make a respectable playlist of at least 13 songs in 46 minutes for y'all. Song of the Day is going to be That's So True by Graciel Abrams and APT by Rosé and Bruno Mars. Shout out.
Shazam is the ultimate tool. I love it so much. What I read today. Read my daily reads of the Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and the Daily Laws by Robert Green. They both hit today with the Daily Stoic fixing your attention on your intelligence. Ask yourself, why did I do that? How could I do that? Why was I thinking? The problem is you wasn't. The problem is that you're laying into another line of that complacency and leisure to want to not think.
However, in this life, you have to always be on point. Unfortunate but true. That's why I'm physically active today. When I was in the army coming up as a cadet, as a young lieutenant, I had a sergeant, a day of PT and just as we're going through the motions and it always stuck with me that when you have your physical training test, that should be your easiest day of working out.
The day where all the cards are on the table, where it's the highest leverage moments, where you're actively getting tested, where it has a direct impact on your promotion and stance in your current occupation, should be your easiest day.
I feel that same way when we can have having a full family together and being able to take them to their haircuts, take the long way going up the hill, walking to their appointment and leading the way and not following, not breathing hard and I feel like I'm making that sergeant proud by living through that further of this being that PT day and that should be the easiest day. What I get from a meditation, when the world gets flipped on its head, eventually walking upside down becomes normal.
What I succeed at today, it's such an honor and success and really coming together moment when the succession of events of picking up children from school, having a full family dinner together, sitting down at the table with no phones, then to brush and floss children's teeth at night, wash their hair after haircuts, putting on clean pajamas, put them to bed and reading them a book, a book that we've been consistently reading.
That's a success that consistently continuity and togetherness and step by step and just as one workout means nothing to the workout yesterday, it's not done. Same as such for all those events. What made me smile today? Just being able to sit down, have a meal, everybody eating at the same time and just always go by never forgetting that and being appreciative that there is a roof over my head, there are clothes on my back and there is food on the table and it's warm.
With that as my humility, that gives me that strength to keep going. What I think of my day overall? Continuity, consistency, stay on the course, remain vigilant and it was a good quote from Giannis that he was really quoting Kobe of be like a kid on the court and always being imaginative, always being open, always being inquisitive and just having no bounds, no perceived limitations and that's what I felt. Have a great day. I could have done an actual active workout for one.
As even as Tim Grover has instilled, still working out on game days, I could have not let my emotions get the best of me in certain times. I could have pushed a little harder. Realize that's how we can always strive. The destination is the journey. Hope you can be aware of those mind, that minefield of leisure and comfortability because there are still those everyday challenges even after you get out of that survival mode. That's the circuit with all of it's own.
You all know through these 600 episodes how we've been through that. Not saying that we won't get back there. Never really left with that.