I've read Chris Barrow's blog almost every single day for at least 15 years.
It's safe to say that it's one of the great joys of my entire life, and I often feel that he's written it specifically for me.
So, you'll know I've been a little bit behind on things when I tell you that the other night I realised there were 12 lying unread in my inbox.
This is my Gmail inbox (personal mail, one that I don't get to that often), but that said, I hardly ever miss more than two of Seth's blogs at once.
It's that flu thing. I've been unwell, grinding it out, where I eat the wrong things, I don't train as well, I don't sleep as well, I don't read the things I should be reading.
But every cloud is a silver lining, and every challenge is an opportunity, and so I could distil those 12 blogs for you down into two major points that I learned as I lay in my bed exhausted, catching up on Seth's blogs before I went to sleep.
Number one, CEO's (whoever they are, even if they're just the CEO of a family) make things, but the things they make are decisions.
If you are good at making decisions, then you can be a good CEO; if you are not good at making decisions, you can learn to be better.
Number Two, your input is essential (as demonstrated by the content of this blog)
If you doom scroll every night before you go to sleep, your life will be a doom-scrolling life. If you read or assume information that will make you better (and even better at making decisions), that is time well spent.
That change in behaviour is free; it costs you nothing.
In fact, it may cost you less than what you're spending on doom scrolling.
Public libraries are usually free, and there are lots of books in them.
Why not try to learn to be better, instead of landing to be more miserable.
Feeling much better now. I'm back up to date with him.
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