Rumination

"Anti-routine" -Alex Hormozi

Rather than implementing something new to a given routine (morning routine, work routine, nighttime routine, etc.), what is something that I can remove from a routine? We get so caught up on finding the right routines and obsess with a top-performer's "perfect" routine so we can copy it. [Footnote: I remember when Tim Ferriss had honed his first hour of the day to a perfect science, which inevitably led to someone asking what the first MINUTE of his day looked like...]

We typically know what we should being doing and simply do other things instead. Thus, we should implement an "anti-routine." Stay focused on the important and the unimportant will make itself known. Then cut. it. out. 

Reflection

If being forced to watch commercials during college football has taught me anything, it's that the World Cup is coming up. Somehow I have also learned that the World Cup is played every 4 years. That means that the last time the World Cup was played (other verbs: filled, drank, emptied) was 2018. So what's happened since 2018?

• Paralegal at BAL.

• Got Calpurnia.

• First semester of law school.

• Many a drink with the boys.

• Car crashed through my apartment.

• Met the Love of my life.

• Got engaged.

• Got married.

• Research assist for Prof. Mulvaney

• The Vague Plague (which still delineates most memories: pre-C19; blackhole; post-C19)

• Zoom School of Law

• Clerkship @ MSS

• Internship @ Eastland COA

• Internship @ Ft. Worth COA

• Published article

• Toph 4/10

• The Fort --> Abilene

• SSBC

• Lawyering

• First house

• Minivan Life

• Billy Rett 9/19

What was the question? Oh yeah, what's happened in the last 4 years? The Lord has been faithful and has blessed our little family beyond measure. A lot of life has happened during these last 4 years. I get too caught up in the future at times and want it all right now. But the value is in the present progressive, the here and now, the journey, the actual living of a life worth living. 

Reading

• Battle for the American Mind - Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin (recommended by Dr. Louis Markos)

• More than a Battle - Joe Rigney (D-Group book)

• Quack This Way - David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner (quoted by Billy Oppenheimer)

• On the Shoulders of Hobbits - Dr. Louis Markos

Have a blessed week!

CFW