Pivot #18: Self-Assessment

Busy week. This week's newsletter is a quick hitter.

Whether you are in a rut or uber successful, everyone needs to take time to self-assess. The below checklist of questions was inspired by Dr. Julie Gurner, who is a leading performance coach and a worthwhile social media follow. Make life happen and become your own accelerant for your career. Come back to these questions on a regular basis to self-assess. Take action, embrace ownership, and take no excuses.

• Am I playing big enough? - Make sure what your are pursuing is worth your time
• What are my hesitations? - Is there anything you are putting off because it is uncomfortable?
• Am I putting myself into a box that doesn't really exist? - Do not limit yourself
• Where am I being stubborn? - Stubbornness can be good, but are old conventions preventing you from pursuing something new?
• Are the people surrounding me helping or hurting my progress? - Decrease the likelihood of the people you surround yourself with are limiting
• What am I putting first? - Reassess your priorities
• Am I the bottleneck? - Do you need to trust someone else and delegate?
• Am I utilizing my time well? - Time is the scarcest resource on earth. Use it wisely.
• Visualize who you want to become - do you need to change anything? - Keep the long term goal in mind
• How can I be an accelerant? - Can you shift your focus to speed up progress?

Game Notes

• The ultimate guide to running shoe foams - Run Repeat
• Sell for Half a Billion & Get Nothing - Fundable
• Cardinals groundball guru Stubby Clapp tired of traditional fungo bat. So he reimagined it - STL Today
• 30 things no one tells you when you reach 40 - X
• How Zach Bogosian became the Lightning’s glue guy (from 2022) - The Athletic
• How the Rays have simplified the complex art of pitcher development - The Athletic
• Not Far from Rate Cuts - WSJ

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