"It's having the roots to live in the details, notice the details, stay in the details, RESPECT the details."
I’ve been quiet on the LFE Mic lately. IYKYK but you definitely don’t have to care, unless you want to hear an honest account of intermittently finding and losing your mojo through little windows of sanity and overwhelming moments of stress.
It’s kind of like a Wes Anderson film - what I’ve been going through - these unbelievable, inexplicable moments of life that are so large and overwhelming and should be sprawled out across a year of life but they are instead packed into days and weeks of unreal effort and they just keep coming.
I mean for most of 2024, my morning routine after packing lunches and getting the grommets to school was chug a coffee, run a 5k, do an intense high velocity full body workout while taking work calls all in 45mins or less so that I could get another coffee, try not to forget to eat breakfast, shower, clean up the toddler tornado and then get to work before the team gets there so I can have at least 30mins of quiet email catch up and daily strategy. Sounds fun right? And that was a slow morning.
My average has been 1500-1800 emails a day, close to a thousand text messages, 100+ missed calls, all major issues not one less important than the other, bursting pipes at home, kids ransacking the house like it’s an inflatable jumper, stoked customers, not stoked customers, great products, terrible products from terrible vendors that have to be remade after being 6 months late and blowing all your budget, tariffs, California taxes, investors, old Gs, new Gs, wildly unprofessional people, lovers, haters, money problems, etc etc.
The point is, holy shit, when you get spread too thin, it’s just too much at some point and you turn into a pile of goop, incapable of doing basic human things. Your true organic humanism takes over and says, f-that, that’s too much, sit your butt down.
