3 seeds to plant this week 🌱

Hola from Colombia, 

I discovered an 83-year-old lady’s blog called When You Get to My Age. It’s amazing. (more below)

Phrase she learned as a little girl, “Our mind is a garden, our thoughts are the seeds. We can grow flowers or we can grow weeds.”

Here are 3 seeds to plant this week. 🌱

🗑️ Garbage Time

Jerry Seinfeld loves “garbage time.”

“I'm a believer in the ordinary and the mundane. These guys that talk about ‘quality time’ -- I always find that a little sad when they say, ‘We have quality time.’ 

I don't want quality time. I want the garbage time. That's what I like. You see (your kids) in their room reading a comic book and watch that for a minute, or a bowl of Cheerios at 11pm when they're not supposed to be up. The garbage, that's what I love.” - Jerry Seinfeld 

This really hits for me. It also applies to other areas of life. For example, open travel plans. Just soaking in the scenes. I tried walking around the other day without listing to a podcast or audiobook (crazy I know). 

Our time is finite. Regardless of how we label it (quality or garbage), it’s just time. And soon it will be gone. Savor the teeny bit we have. 

🌱 Life is a Garden

Everyone’s garden is different, same as their lives. 

Seeds = desired achievements

• Need to be planted today, to develop later

Weeds = undesired setbacks

• Let the wrong people plant seeds (choking the plants) and our garden is no longer a place of beauty

Garden = work and effort

• Care for the soil and reap the rewards

Check out this 83-year-old’s beautiful article on Life is Like a Garden. 

📈 Biz Framework

The "3 P's framework" for the best business ideas

• POTENTIAL of idea → How big could it be?

• PROBABILITY of outcome → Good chance it works?

• PROXIMITY of idea → Near your heart (enjoyment) or brain (expertise)?

Takeaway:

Most overweight probability. Instead, balance all 3.

Here is a quick breakdown of my favorite frameworks from Dharmesh Shah (billionaire founder of Hubspot). 

💬 Quote

“Your instincts, your human personal intuition — always whispers; it never shouts. So you have to, every day of your life, be ready to hear what whispers in your ear.” — Steven Spielberg

South America has been whispering to me for a few years now. What’s whispering to you? 

Abrazos,

Mitchell