Choices

What’s useful and what’s hiding?

July 28, 2026

There’s a quiz that happens every day. It’s called the “are you hiding?” quiz.

Certain things present themselves throughout our day that pose as helpful but really they’re helping us only to hide from our real work.

Sorting your computer desktop is one. Planning how you will do something when you actually already know how to do it is another.

The big clue is if it’s a step removed from the scary thing- but it might still feel like it’s in the same area.

“I’ll just watch a few more videos on this first before I get going”.

If it’s scary and awkward and a bit unknown you’re probably not hiding.

Spend less time hiding.

Set the scene

July 23, 2026

What kind of evening do you want to have?

If I want a gentle evening, I make sure it looks and sounds like one.

For me that just means I make the lighting soft, I don’t move or speak too quickly and I make sure the volume of the house is low.

If you are ever having an experience you do not want to have, you need only look at your environment and see how it is contributing to the way you feel.

You can change your environment to change how you feel.

A walk doesn’t take very long

July 22, 2026

But you almost always are glad you went on it.

There are lots of things that are good for us that don’t take long that we seem to avoid.

And the things we’d rather do takes longer (like watching an episode of a tv show)

So would you rather take a shorter amount of time, feel reset and feel energised…

…or take a longer amount of time, doing something slightly easier but that doesn’t really serve you?

Sometimes a decision is necessary

July 13, 2026

And sometimes you just need to change your orientation.

Action can be tempting, because we feel a sense of certainty that there is movement.

But in some cases movement is unnecessary.

If you want to be a better father, you don’t need to buy all your kids kites or suddenly take them out for ice cream.

That action might be a flash in the pan.

But a new orientation could be long lasting.

How does a great father see the world? What situations and occurrences call you in a different way from that new orientation?

How does this new way of seeing the world naturally filter and affect your choices?

Rest but still routine

July 3, 2026

After a giant week of big work days, a rest day is always welcome.

In the past I thought that meant completely letting go, but I’ve actually found if the only thing I change is the amount of work output, then the rest sinks in better.

I’m sleeping a good amount and waking up early on a work day.

I’m eating great food that fuels me and keeps my energy consistent.

I’m moving my body enough to give me energy.

On a rest day, I don’t want to stop these things.

Keeping the fundamentals in place lets my body and mind equalise and truly rest when I don’t need to work.

If the fundamentals are dropped- a rest day actually becomes something you need to recover from.

And being in recovery mode when it’s another work day is not a position any of us want to be in.

How do you want it to go?

June 28, 2026

When theres something coming up soon that you want to do a great job at, you have some options about how to think about it…

You can try and ignore it.

You can picture yourself doing a bad job at it.

You can picture yourself absolutely nailing it (and having fun in the process).

It seems a bit of a no brainer, right?

But how many times do you find yourself picturing the thing not working out?

For me, it’s a regular internal conversation; I picture the thing and it’s a version that I kind of dread.

I have to change it on purpose.

What would it look like if it wen’t really well? What would it look like if it were easy? What would it look like if it were actually a lot of fun?

It’s easy to forget, but we can change the pictures we make in our head to match what we want.

Optimism is not optional

June 26, 2026

There is always a choice as to how full we see the glass.

But it’s not really a choice.

Why? Because if there’s a choice between a world of generosity, possibility and excitement… and a world of scarcity, pessimism and negativity- is there actually a choice?

No.

Optimism isn’t optional.

It’s a must.

Books are insane value

June 24, 2026

Think of all of the time an author puts into writing a book.

And think about the years of practice, research and revisions they’ve gone through to know what they know.

And think about how specific book topics often are.

A book holds the detailed instructions of how to get a specific result. You get to adopt the beliefs, experiences and recipes of the greatest minds in any field you want.

By opening a book you open a potential world where you too can do what the writer has a done.

All of this for 20 bucks.

But of course every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So yes the book is cheap, but it doesn’t give you the result on a silver platter.

It gives you everything you need, but it’s up to you to implement that.

A shelf of books could be collectively worth a few hundred dollars.

But the potential that lies in those same pages is in the millions or perhaps it’s even priceless.

Books are a bargain, but only if you take action on them.

If you don’t, well you’re ripping yourself off.

You get to choose

June 23, 2026

Is the planning you have to do for your lesson a joy or a drag?

Is the research phase the boring bit or the juicy bit?

Is delaying gratification a necessary pain or an adventurous pleasure?

It may look like our experiences decide what they’ll be on our behalf. But the truth is, we get to choose what anything means.

Is this the end or the beginning?

Is this a breakdown or a breakthough?

Choose wisely.

How do you sensitise yourself?

June 19, 2026

The world has so much stimulus flying at us in all directions.

We tune a lot of it out.

I’m thinking a lot about how to resensitise ourselves to the world.

What do you focus on? What do you put in your body on a regular basis? How do you move your body?

All of these things have an effect on my capacity to feel and be moved by the world around me.

A feather can be moved by a baby’s breath.

A rock cannot.

JUSTIN ROGERS

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