004: Preparing for Day 0

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Day 0 is a mindset of extreme preparation. We have all the necessary knowledge and resources in-place, with the team fully briefed on what to do. The task then proceeds with maximum fluidity, all challenges accounted for and attended to with ease.

Rare is the case when we can successfully execute this every single day, in the midst of everyday challenges ongoing. Clear thinking in the construction of the process, and exquisite care in refining the procedure is the bare requirement.

That is something I see the ideal, in approaching our entire life as a set of projects. Achieving that means the clarity of vision and purpose we have sought to commit to. It may not even be something we succeed in. The journey is the goal after all. A purpose we have committed can be assuaged by attending to the work we have committed to, every single day.

What does this mean? Continuing to pursue emotional honesty, in finding the purpose. It is not something I know to find inside myself at this point in time. Instead, it seems like I am co-constructing a mission with an inner voice, one which I am not yet adept in listening to.

It also means sourcing for the highest quality resources to immerse myself in. Identifying the important skills to be leveraged in this age of information abundance. The pursuit of that is part of a discovery of.... an mission. Hints of that only come up in times of competence and aligning of meaning.

It’s not something to be described yet. Right now the goal is still a hazy collection of impulses and sources of flow. With the further exploration, that haze becomes clearer with each passing day. What more to do about it then? People who have stepped along a similar path could have seen through the murky horizon. Even though they did not take the turn in the crossroads, their journey is still worth understanding and remembering.

Even as we attend to each day with the greatest presence we can muster, perhaps our entire life is a preparation for the only Day 0 that matters. At the end of it all, we are tested on the legacy we left behind and the grace with which we meet whatever comes. It is not quite a performance, as it is an evaluation of our portfolio where everything counts. So we just perform every day, taking it one at a time.

Every day is Day 1, and Day 0 for the next day.