Did you ever notice that the problem with 6am flights is that they don’t occur at 12pm?
Good super-early morning from EWR, where I’m about to board a plane to Toronto for a quick Keynote this afternoon.
When my alarm went off at 3am (which is 45 minutes early than I usually get up,) I won’t lie, it hurt. I’m currently on day five of an eight-day water fast, and while I have plenty of energy, a 3am wake up call would hurt for anyone.
So before I went to bed, I put a post-it note on my phone, so I’d have to look at it in order to shut my phone off. It read:
“Flip the conversation.”
What does that mean? Simply put, it means that no matter how tired I was, I looked at my alarm going off in a different way:
I get to hear my alarm go off, so that means I’m still alive.
I get to get up to give a speech, because I’m fortunate enough to have a way to earn a living.
I get to get up early because I’m lucky enough to have a reputation that makes people want to fly me places to pay me to speak.
And so on.
In the end, it comes down to my favorite bit of advice: Simply replace “I have to,” with “I get to.” You’ll be amazed what happens when you do.
Sending love from two different countries this morning. We’ll talk again soon.
Have a spectacular week, and reach out if I can ever help you with anything!
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