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On Mondays, we’ll lock in together: See below for a motivational tidbit to start your week and intention to consider 🙂
Motivation
“either you run the day or the day runs you”
I honestly couldn’t tell you where I first stumbled across this quote. But, I do what I always do when I find something I wanna come back to: take note in Notion. The internet helped me connect it back to Jim Rohn.
Running your day starts with the very first choice you make after waking up. If your morning is spent immediately reacting to notifications or the demands of others, you have already handed over the controls. To move with intention means deciding how you will approach the inevitable hurdles before they even arrive. It’s the difference between being a resident and an architect. A resident just lives within the walls of a messy schedule, feeling trapped by the clutter. An architect, however, views the day as a design. When things go sideways, they adjust the blueprint rather than letting the structure collapse.
When you let the day run you, you might find your energy depleted by noon because you are constantly in a reactive position. By matching the heaviest tasks to your highest energy levels, you give yourself space to finish the evening with something left in the tank (or use leftover energy for something you weren’t expecting). You are no longer just surviving the hours; you are directing them.
How do you define running the day? Sharing my intention below 🙂
Yoana’s Intention for the Week: I will identify my highest energy window and protect it for my most important task, focusing on getting out of ‘reactive’ mode.
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