Lose the drama collect the data

Work hasn't really started yet we are still enjoying a bit of an extended holiday. 

I'm being asked by the few clients I am working with if it feels like we've moved yet and my answer has been no. 

Having said that I don't know if I have a moved feeling in my repertoire any more than I have one for holidays. 

When you run a business with staff that continue in your absence you have sort of breaks or pockets of calm but nothing that you could really call a holiday. 

Forgive me if it's the same when you have a job, I've never had a real one of those. 

After about three days away your brain fires into action. You go into problem solving mode or forward planning mode. 

What ever day to day fog was in front of you clouding your judgments, and there is always some. 

It starts to lift. 

Distance from your stories and recency bias helps you to see a bigger picture. 

Larger objects shrink with distance, heavy burdens become weight less with time. 

I'm sure if we totalled the net gain of holidays companies would give more or at least CEO's and owners would take more. 

I'm about a month in now, my alarm has gone and I've re-calibrated to 6am natural wake up, my morning meditation is more focused more quickly and I'm getting fitter and stronger by the day. 

This isn't a recommendation or a boast either, but perhaps a wake up call for me. 

A bench mark of how sleep should feel and how strong I should feel and how my brain feels when it's functioning it's best.

Without benchmarks and regular checks and mandatory minimums we easily get lost on what we say is important to us. 

We wake up and there's a 42 inch waist staring back at us. 

We suddenly have outgoings that exceed our income, 

we have a blood pressure 20 points too high, 

we're drinking alcohol every day,

We have a business that is not doing what it set out to do. 

It all just creeps in, one tiny lie at a time, 

This won't hurt,
I really need it,
I'm just stressed ATM,
It helps me unwind,
If we compromise now it will be better in the long run. 

Soon the monster that was once a baby looms large. 

Brutal honest is a dose we all deserve, 
Not because we've been bad
But because freedom is in truth. 

Data not drama.

Seek the numbers you most fear. 

It's the beginning of every breakthrough.

Ed Ley