1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,680 Hello, welcome to the Report Card. 2 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,520 Every day is continuous test with no subject. 3 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:14,520 What's your answer? 4 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,720 What's meaningful? 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:24,760 How many times after we get that job, after we get that position, after we get that acceptance, 6 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:36,520 after we get that degree, after we get that seemingly insurmountable one goal, do we disappear 7 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:37,520 in the background? 8 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:40,200 Do we wither away? 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,440 Do we become forgotten? 10 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:54,880 Do we ease into the trap of leisure? 11 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:03,640 Or will you lead yourself through the resistance practice? 12 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:18,440 What do you have on Valentine's Day? 13 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:25,000 Season 56, 56, playlist, episode 600. 14 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,520 Thank you. 15 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,640 You're with that. 16 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:34,400 You're with that. 17 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,920 Let's start it. 18 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,140 Song of the Day. 19 00:01:38,140 --> 00:01:40,320 This playlist, I'm loving. 20 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:48,480 If you hear me, last episode I was uncertain, but now I had a flood of Shazam songs that 21 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,240 finally connected and now I was able to make a respectable playlist of at least 13 songs 22 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:57,600 in 46 minutes for y'all. 23 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:05,360 Song of the Day is going to be That's So True by Graciel Abrams and APT by Rosé and Bruno 24 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,360 Mars. 25 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:10,640 Shout out. 26 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:11,840 Shazam is the ultimate tool. 27 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,760 I love it so much. 28 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,000 What I read today. 29 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:28,920 Read my daily reads of the Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and the Daily Laws by Robert 30 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:32,920 Green. 31 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:43,480 They both hit today with the Daily Stoic fixing your attention on your intelligence. 32 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,120 Ask yourself, why did I do that? 33 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:48,120 How could I do that? 34 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:49,120 Why was I thinking? 35 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,120 The problem is you wasn't. 36 00:02:52,120 --> 00:03:01,200 The problem is that you're laying into another line of that complacency and leisure to want 37 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,680 to not think. 38 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:08,760 However, in this life, you have to always be on point. 39 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:16,600 Unfortunate but true. 40 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,400 That's why I'm physically active today. 41 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:31,360 When I was in the army coming up as a cadet, as a young lieutenant, I had a sergeant, a 42 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:39,800 day of PT and just as we're going through the motions and it always stuck with me that 43 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:49,400 when you have your physical training test, that should be your easiest day of working 44 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,400 out. 45 00:03:52,400 --> 00:04:00,160 The day where all the cards are on the table, where it's the highest leverage moments, where 46 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:05,840 you're actively getting tested, where it has a direct impact on your promotion and stance 47 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:11,880 in your current occupation, should be your easiest day. 48 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:22,720 I feel that same way when we can have having a full family together and being able to take 49 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:31,000 them to their haircuts, take the long way going up the hill, walking to their appointment 50 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:38,680 and leading the way and not following, not breathing hard and I feel like I'm making 51 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:51,000 that sergeant proud by living through that further of this being that PT day and that 52 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,280 should be the easiest day. 53 00:04:52,280 --> 00:04:58,780 What I get from a meditation, when the world gets flipped on its head, eventually walking 54 00:04:58,780 --> 00:05:03,560 upside down becomes normal. 55 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:13,080 What I succeed at today, it's such an honor and success and really coming together moment 56 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:22,720 when the succession of events of picking up children from school, having a full family 57 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:30,320 dinner together, sitting down at the table with no phones, then to brush and floss children's 58 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:42,080 teeth at night, wash their hair after haircuts, putting on clean pajamas, put them to bed 59 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:47,360 and reading them a book, a book that we've been consistently reading. 60 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:56,720 That's a success that consistently continuity and togetherness and step by step and just 61 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:09,920 as one workout means nothing to the workout yesterday, it's not done. 62 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:22,120 Same as such for all those events. 63 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,280 What made me smile today? 64 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:39,880 Just being able to sit down, have a meal, everybody eating at the same time and just 65 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:48,760 always go by never forgetting that and being appreciative that there is a roof over my 66 00:06:48,760 --> 00:07:02,080 head, there are clothes on my back and there is food on the table and it's warm. 67 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:12,320 With that as my humility, that gives me that strength to keep going. 68 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:16,680 What I think of my day overall? 69 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:30,200 Continuity, consistency, stay on the course, remain vigilant and it was a good quote from 70 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:38,880 Giannis that he was really quoting Kobe of be like a kid on the court and always being 71 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:49,840 imaginative, always being open, always being inquisitive and just having no bounds, no 72 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,960 perceived limitations and that's what I felt. 73 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:01,000 Have a great day. 74 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:15,040 I could have done an actual active workout for one. 75 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:25,200 As even as Tim Grover has instilled, still working out on game days, I could have not 76 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:30,120 let my emotions get the best of me in certain times. 77 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:42,800 I could have pushed a little harder. 78 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:48,520 Realize that's how we can always strive. 79 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:56,160 The destination is the journey. 80 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:08,920 Hope you can be aware of those mind, that minefield of leisure and comfortability because 81 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:17,040 there are still those everyday challenges even after you get out of that survival mode. 82 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,880 That's the circuit with all of it's own. 83 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,640 You all know through these 600 episodes how we've been through that. 84 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,320 Not saying that we won't get back there. 85 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:41,400 Never really left with that.