My ducks: in a row
My elephant: addressed
My eggs: several baskets
My monkeys: not at my circus
My cards: on the table
My chips: all in
My two cents: given
My money: where my mouth is
My heart: in it
Why is this in my movie? is such a great question to ask whenever something challenging or irksome presents itself - what is there to learn, understand, reflect on that this is pointing to. And is this an opportunity to do something different (even if only slightly different) than what I’ve done before?
One of the biggest life hacks I’ve been religiously practicing as a wine lover is one glass of sparkling water per glass of wine ratio. Have been doing this for the past 10 years and it has helped in so many ways.
Alternating reduces alcohol related dehydration, lowers blood alcohol concentration via slower gastric emptying, supports renal and hepatic clearance, improves sleep, and tbh reduces the chance of any hangover (disclaimer they may still happen but usually just manifest as tiredness)
Since I am a sparkling (mineral not faux carbonated) water stan, it also supports via the minerals it contains:
Magnesium- Nervous system regulation: supports sleep and reduces headache risk
Sodium - Fluid retention + plasma volume support
Potassium - Cellular hydration and neuromuscular stability
Bicarbonate - Acid buffer and gastrointestinal support
Calcium - Neuromuscular signaling; secondary buffering role
🍷 + ✨💧
Loved this Wayne Thiebaud exhibit at the Courtauld Gallery in London last week.
The vibrancy of the colours and the delicious thickness of the oil paint strokes creates an incredibly appealing and captivating effect.
My handwriting has progressively turned into doctor style squiggles that I alone have full understanding of and only those accustomed to it can decipher. I’m essentially encrypting my analog communication
To build something genuinely new, something that doesn’t already exist, one must be willing to let go of attachments to the old masters that shaped current identities and ways of looking at things.
We have been hardwired for predictability and yet we’re trying to inhabit a future that isn’t predictable at all. It’s why I believe there’s been a tendency to rebuild the known in an unknown space. For comfort, scarcity mindset extraction, short term - what we’ve been generationally coded to do.
Holding and staying true to the vision that brought us here and being comfortable with being uncomfortable without collapsing into known patterns is the hardest part yet it is what will ultimately enable us to materialise said vision.
https://x.com/nic_carter/status/1998813611997745386?s=46&t=0nxPIfVGRqCZQG30RdM2gw
Most coordination failures aren’t logistical or resource based - they’re relational.
They come from not knowing how to handle conflict, lacking integrative emotional intelligence and getting stuck in reactive loops.
“The quality of our lives depends not on whether we have conflict, but on how we respond to it.” Thomas Crum
Integrative intelligence is the capacity to hold competing perspectives, emotions and incentives at the same time without collapsing into defensiveness or shutdown.
And reactivity tends to feel like conviction but it is usually just nervous system dysregulation...
“If you can’t manage your emotions, you don’t really manage anything.”Daniel Goleman
We keep trying to solve coordination by arguing, implementing new tooling, scrapping without diagnosis, and politics but the real bottleneck might just be emotional maturity at scale.
