Eat cereal from a plate!

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Do you eat cereal from a bowl or plate?

Ever since he could pour, my younger son uses a plate. Any cereal, every cereal, no matter the morsel size. On a plate.

Then fills a bowl of milk. Just milk 🥛 

He takes one cereal square from the plate, drops it into the milk, enjoys that bite, then takes another and drops it into the milk bowl.

At first he didn’t like it soggy, but now he’s a decade into his rhythm.

Cheerios? He only puts in enough for a spoonful. Sometimes it takes like 15 minutes to have a bowl. Regardless he sits there enjoying each individual bite.

Late for school? Fine. He skips cereal that day.

Not me right?

I just pour whatever I grab. My illusion is: ‘I'm just having breakfast’. My mouth just moves up and down and swallows periodically.

The funny thing is, I actually really like cereal. Never mind that, I want this over with, because the next moment will ‘surely be more important’ 🙄 

Need to hire 20 people immediately for your explosively growing business? You can’t.

But you can put one new hire in your milk bowl. Then another. One good hire, 20 times in a row.

Just like the rainbow bricks. Those brick masons didn’t lay 20 bricks. They laid one good brick. Tap tap, nudge nudge.

I don’t fast. I don’t cleanse. I have breakfast everyday folks.

Friend, between you and me, I’m merely getting it over with.

I’m walking around the house with my bowl, or in front of my laptop, no doubt doing ‘more important’ things. 100? I’ve even driven a car while eating cereal 🫢

Interestingly, I love talking with my son, because he is always “there”. You get me?

So—what if instead of doing more stuff today, I did the existing stuff better?

More focus, sharper superpowers, with more purpose? Maybe it’s not more hours in the day I need, but more presence. Is it possible?

Many grand and life-altering events await me. Is it possible? Perhaps.

But . . . is anything more important than this one bite of cereal from the plate today?

Mind 🌞 

Your mind can fantasize about the future, replay the past, or stress about the whole wall you’re trying to build—but when it comes time to actually do something, your brain can only move one brick 🧱 

One hire.
One email. One customer.
One conversation. One friend.
One Cheerio dropped into the milk.

Everything you’ve ever built—every relationship, every project, every transformation — good and bad—happened because you made one decision, then another one, then another one.

The illusion is that life is a blitzkrieg of a thousand decisions at once.

The truth is that life is one decision repeated a thousand times.

Soul ⚡️ 

“Rome wasn’t built in a day . . . but they were laying bricks every hour.”

— John Heywood

Eat your cereal from a plate today to remind yourself » presence tastes better than productivity 💯 

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