What's the thinking behind it?
The most important question to shape your great life.
Today, I decided to go rollerblading for the first time this year.
My brain had a lot to say about it.
It’s cloudy. What if it rains?
The pavement’s still wet.
What if you fall?
But underneath all the excuses? It was discomfort. Inconvenience. The uncertainty of trying something unfamiliar again.
But I wanted to go! Rollerblading is the most fun I’ve had with any sport. It’s one of the few things that gets my brain into flow almost instantly.
So would I let all these small discomforts win?
That’s not the kind of person I want to feed.
Not the mentality I want to practice.
So I made a simple decision. I went. I sweated. I had a blast.
But the moment that mattered wasn’t the rollerblading.
It was the rebellion.
Do I let my life be ruled by minor inconveniences?
Or by what I actually want to experience and become?
That’s the real choice.
I’m reminded of something Annie Duke, elite poker player and decision-making expert, teaches:
Good decisions can lead to bad outcomes. Bad decisions can sometimes get lucky. But the only way to ensure long-term success is to consistently use sound logic.
You can leave for the airport 3 hours early and still get stuck in traffic and miss your flight.
Or you can cut it razor-close and somehow make it.
But that doesn’t change the fact that preparing early is still the better decision.
And over time, it’ll get you where you want to go on time and with a lot less stress.
You can stumble into a career break without doing the work. But it won't last.
Mastery - practice, discipline, craft - will always be the more predictable, repeatable, sustainable path.
Luck is random.
Good logic lasts.
And that’s why the real win today wasn’t the workout.
It was choosing to show up, for the right reasons.
Not because it was easy.
Because the decision made sense for who I want to become.
P.S. Many leaders mess this up. They reward outcomes not thinking.
That’s how you end up with people cutting corners to meet KPIs.
Instead of building the kind of culture where good decisions compound over time.
What’s a recent decision you made? And if you look under the hood was the logic solid? Are you proud of it?