Sahil Bloom

It's one, it's make sure that you are finding a community of people who are aligned with you around these bigger picture values of the things that you are really wanting to want.

because it will make it much easier for you to then go and align with that.

And then two, make sure you are constantly auditing your ability to create that daily sort of forcing function on the awareness of who your ideal self is.

The reason I say that that's so important is because I have this impression or experience in my own life that awareness is perishable.

There are a lot of things that I say, and I'm sure that you say, that people's first reaction to it would be, well, I know that.

I know my relationships are the most important thing, or I know my time is precious.

It doesn't matter if you know something in an abstract sense if you are not acting on it at the testing point.

You know, as C.S.

Lewis talks about when it comes to courage, that courage is every value at its testing point.

That is what matters.

And the only way you can act on these things at the testing point is if you are forcing that awareness to the front of your mind constantly, like recognizing who your ideal self is constantly, not just in the ease moments when the seas are calm, but also when it's the stormy seas so that you can go and do something about it.

Yeah.

I mean, for me in my own life, I have a little note card that sits on my desk in my writing area that just says, I will coach my son's sports teams.

That's all it says.

Just one little sentence on it.

What that statement means to me is, you know, sort of the version of who my ideal self is during this season of life, if you will.

I have a young son and I want to be the type of husband, the type of father, the type of community member who shows up to coach my son's sports teams.

Now, knowing that, I can now flip a switch when I see that card to turn on that ideal self at any given moment.

So if someone sends me an opportunity and it sounds really interesting financially, but it's going to require me to be away 300 nights out of the year, I could ask myself the question when I see that card, well, okay, turn this on.

What would the type of person who coaches his son's sports teams do in this situation?