Dash of Courage: What do you wear the most?

“Procrastination is the most common manifestation.”-Steven Pressfield

This is not a fashion newsletter. 
It’s a Courageous Leadership one. 

When I heard a speaker ask that question, it was a bit odd. I didn’t know if we were headed for Sydney Sweeney territory and a diatribe on great jeans, or maybe it was about brands and how they define us. 

A favorite hat? Workout outfit? Shirt, skirt, shoes? Everyone has something you wear the most. I wonder what a tuxedo and Tiger King shoes says about someone? I didn’t ask.

He went a totally different direction. 
What do you wear the most?
The answer: Your choices.

He had the whole crowd in that moment. 
Wish I had come up with that one. 

We walk through life with the choices we make.
Hard choices. Easy life.
Easy choices. Hard life.
Intentional choices. Intentional life.

Our choices walk ahead of us. 
They speak before we do. 
They shape our story more than anything in our closet ever will.

Choice: it’s what we wear the most and clearest path to a brighter future. 

Right now, I’m choosing to read 10 books in 10 weeks. I just finished book one:
The Science of Scaling by Dr. Benjamin Hardy.

He breaks the belief that your past defines your future. It doesn’t.

In fact, it’s your future that should drive your present. 

Want to change your direction? Pull your future forward. And how do we do that?

Raise your floor.

Stop tolerating the low-effort, low-return stuff.
Start choosing better inputs. 
More focused energy. 
Tighter priorities. 
Less mindless scrolling. 

You don’t rise to the level of your dreams. You fall to the level of your systems. And your systems are built on your daily choices.

Dash of Courage
Over the next week, as you walk into work or whatever hallway life’s leading you down, don’t just ask “What am I wearing today?”

Ask. “What am I choosing today?”

That’s what people really see.
Thats’s what you carry into every room.
That’s what you wear the most. 

Make it look good.

Courage over Comfort,
Garrett