an old buddy said to me the other day—
what’s going on?
it’s like I don’t know how you’re gonna show up anymore.
you started popping up in ties on videos.
then you dropped your email headers and started to get simple.
I just don’t know who you’ll be next time I see you.
who are you going to be?
I asked—
when you get home tonight and you’re with your family.
who are you going to be?
which version of you shows up there?
how do you speak?
behave, be?
how is that version of you different to who you show up as in business?
with your buddies?
when you’re hanging with one of your oldest and best friends?
who are any of us?
you might know that I have a bit of a superhero thing.
not anything major, like I’ve never read any comics.
more like I just have lots of bottles like the black panther one in the picture above.
watch a few marvel films here and there.
have some superheroes on my walls and some hidden behind other art.
one tattooed on my hip, but nothing super serious like a full chest tattoo or anything.
you see there’s lots of things I like about superheroes but perhaps my favorite is having a secret identity.
even if it’s not that secret, like Batman just has a deeper voice or Superman has some glasses, they’re just saying to us…
you get to choose who you show up as
and that’s all I was saying to my buddy and now to you.
you get to choose who you show up as.
the way you show up.
who you decide to be.
how you want to interact with others and perhaps how you want them to perceive you.
so, who are you choosing to be?
who are you showing up as today?
that lesser, or super you?
how much have you thought about it?
to be sure, I get that I overthink things.
but I do seem to meet many more people these days who overthink these things too.
the other day at lunch some superhero looking guy stopped me to say he was listening to my ultimate days program and he’d had this epiphany.
that you can just wake up.
think what you thought yesterday. Feel how you did. do much the same things.
or, you can wake up and choose how you want to be today.
how you want to think.
the types of actions you take and how you take them.
all this is within your control.
you get to choose.
and the point of Ultimate Days is that you get to optimize it all day every day.
I think I’m gonna record a short video program on it so I can hit this stuff more directly.
in the meantime, you might wanna check out track 1 again: