Lately I’ve been paying closer attention to what gives me energy and what drains it. The biggest thief? My phone. In this episode, I break down how scrolling kills momentum, what I’ve been doing to snap out of it, and a simple trick to get back on track fast.

We use the term ‘Prioritize and Execute’ at the shop all the time. It’s from Jocko’s Laws of Combat. Find the priority and execute. Once complete, there’s a new priority. Then you handle that.

This is the antidote for overwhelm.

It’s easy to get bogged down with the big picture of getting everything done. You can't do it all at once. Take a step back to detach. That'll help you find the next step you need to take.

This can be applied to all aspects of life. When you're feeling overwhelmed, detach, identify the priority, and run the play. Before you know it, you'll be moving forward. Forward movement generates momentum. Now you're off to the races.

I was thinking about some concepts that are seemingly at odds with each other, but they aren’t. We’re only alive today. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow hasn’t happened. Living in the present is all there is, but does that mean you can’t learn from the past or plan for the future?

No. Let’s break it down. How do you use today to make your life better? If you have regrets from the past, you can use today to reflect on them, learn, adjust, and grow from those things. For the future, how do you live in the present and plan for the future? Isn’t that going against living in the moment? I don’t think so.

We can use today to visualize our ideal future. It sets a target for where we want to go. Once you have that vision, you can then identify what you need to do daily to move towards it.

What does today look like? We’ve decided what we’ve done in the past that we don’t like, identified things we want to change, and now we can do things differently. We’ve created a vision for what we want in our future. That should give us some general ideas on what we need to do daily to move towards it. We don’t need all the answers, we just need to move forward with that target in mind.

Write down a list of five things that’ll move you forward. Those things can be action steps to get you closer to your future, could be habits to correct past behavior to become the person you want to be, or habits that your future self needs to get you where you want to go.

Knock out a list of 5 things that move you forward every day. You’re living only today while working towards the future and adjusting based on lessons from the past. Is it easy? Hell no. But it’s worth it.