Blue Rhino

Each Monday, I’m faced with an opportunity: How will I set the pace of the week?

Will I let the stress of last week cloud today—or even Wednesday?

I’ve decided to flip the script on Mondays: Blue rhinos, not Blue Mondays

Think about a rhino for a moment, do you think they are worried about a lion coming and trying to eat them?

I snapped this image on a trip, it made me pause and think.

What if instead of being the gazelle trying to outrun the lion or the lion chasing the gazelle, I was a blue rhino?

What if the rhino is a better animal to pick in the game of business?

There was a phase in my career when I dreaded Mondays.

Here’s what I do now to ensure I have a blue rhino:

• Focus on today. Not Friday. Just today.

• Write. Every day. In my journal, in reports, and right here on this platform. I take the thoughts and put them down.

• Let it go. Let yourself flow. Slow and low, that is the tempo. The Beastie Boys had it all figured out.

We live in a fast-paced world, constantly trying to exist in three places at once: Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.

Sometimes, we have to flip the script completely.

We have to reframe things in a way that makes this journey fun again.

How will you reframe today?