A Daily Calibration

Check in with yourself

Sometimes off guard or we get enveloped into our work.

I feel that when we get caught up in task after task, unexpected circumstances, situations or simply, daily interactions:

• Out shopping
• Phone conversation
• Business meeting
• Dinner with the family
• etc.

 

What is it?

 

To Calibrate is to adjust or measure yourself in a precise and exact way.

 

It's a daily adjustment or reset, a daily precision tool to measure how you have been operating in congruent to your purpose, your mission, your legacy.

 

• Those that have an extremely clear vision of their purpose,  do this calibration upon every decision. 
• Some of us do it hourly or at certain points of the day.
• For some of us, its part of either our morning routine or evening routine or both.
• And some not at all.
• I ask myself with several choices through the day “Is this congruent with the direction I am heading?” “Is this inline with my diet and my health goals?” “Is what I am about to say in line with the version of myself I strive to be?”

 

Like all tools, just like a muscle, if you continually develop the skills to use it, over time the power of it grows.

 

Action:

• Set an alarm hourly
• In the Am/Pm routine - Include a WOL in your affirmations (Calibrations)
• One of the most profound changes for me - 60 second rule
• Schedule a reset on your calendar, maybe its Wednesdays? Whatever it is that gets you back to that place of leadership, of energy, of direction - This could be that you are charged whenever you read a book like Think And Grow Rich, A particular passage, A bookmarked article or podcast, or linking up with a mentor or a coach to help.

Moving forward, If you find yourself becoming overwhelmed

Handling a situation as you walk away thinking to yourself “I could have handled that better or that wasn't me.”

 

Before you step foot into a part of your day that you want to deliver the very best version of yourself, do a simple calibration, possibly using some of the suggestions we’ve suggested or create your own. 

Some inspiration:

• I heard Les Brown in an