13 tweets · February 2023 · 39 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter
in the movie Groundhog Day, the protagonist wakes up again and again on the same day, repeating the same mistakes until he finds the right way to relate to his situation and then time moves forward I haven't seen the movie, but that won't stop me from using it as a metaphor! 😅
so yeah, I'm not actually sure what the success condition is for moving forward from Feb 2 to Feb 3... is it something like... he has to do the day perfectly without mistakes?
or is it more like he has to accept that he's going to do things that upset people or cause whatever problems, & just do them anyway because that's his life, rather than regretting them and trying to change them? doesn't matter—either way, there's a lesson for real life there!
the lesson of the "make no mistakes" version is that with enough practice, you can perfect things (to some standard) you can learn and grow and change and become the sort of person who doesn't make the mistakes you used to
the lesson of "accept your mistakes" is that you DID make the mistakes you made, and you have to start from there tomorrow is a new day—you can do something else, which could include repairing what broke yesterday, or might involve choosing to focus your energy on something new
these lessons don't contradict each other—they're both true, all the time you can practice & grow beyond your mistakes, and where that starts is accepting your current level so you can work to increase it
we're a month into 2023 is the year going how you wanted? did you even take some time to envision what you might want? are you in an environment that's challenging you to learn, but not too challenging?
is there something you'd like to try to do every day, but you having had the courage to commit, or you've tried to commit and you've already fallen off?
the power of doing something every day isn't because 365 days is the magic number of times to do something every year it's because it creates clarity that the answer to "am I going to exercise this morning?" is always "yes"
and you can start that any day, not just January 1st but you do have to take some time to consider what you want and why, in order to get that clarity and you need strategies for when slip-ups happen
if you want some guidance (or even just structured coworking) for going through a process of clarifying what you want out of your year, join our epic online choose-your-own-adventure workshop in a couple weeks! learn more & sign up: complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
if you're averse to the idea of "goals", don't worry—we're not attached to the name or the concept and we use the concept pretty spaciously in the first place:
or check out our other various GCI-related threads here: