Five Minutes To Your Best 2023

I want the best year ever in 2023. And as I cannot control the outside world, cannot avoid the reality that I have lost things: people, resources, capacities…I have to focus on what I CAN control: my behaviors. And through my behaviors, my thoughts and emotions (there is a feedback loop here. Controlling thoughts and emotions controls your behaviors, and controlling your behaviors controls your thoughts and emotions)

The commitment is to a “Diamond Hour” of time every day that belongs to no one but me me me. And frankly, the more committed you are to supporting your family and community, the MORE important this time is.

But I also need to break this down to the “Atomic” level, the level where it is impossible for me to lie and say I didn’t have the time to do it. And that means the “Five Minute Miracle”, five sixty-second breathing breaks, one every three hours.

I cannot say I don’t have five minutes. If I don’t take that time IT IS SOMETHING ELSE. Some ego fear. Some lack of focus and clarity. A lack of faith in myself.

The fact is that this is identical to the “sentence a day” thing: if I can plant this seed, it will grow. So let me look at my possible reasons to NOT take these breaks every 1–3 hours.

1. I don’t believe it will make a difference. Sounds like so little. But notice: if I say I love science, then it would make sense to perform the experiment. I’m risking what, about two hours a MONTH doing this? What is the cost-benefit ratio? In what universe…