Are you a rule breaker?

​Colleagues,
 
Today I am breaking my own rules.
 
The past six weeks have been challenging for the Buskey family. We have lost my mother-in-law, and uncle-in-law, and tomorrow will lay to rest my 57-yearold brother-in-law. In between all of this Pam, three of my four kids, and I all contracted COVID-19.
 
I don’t share this as a call for sympathy, but rather as evidence that sometimes our lives are disrupted to the extent that our desires, agendas, and routines either lose their meaning or simply don’t work.
 
As I write this on Wednesday, December 16, I am breaking my own rules:

1. Instead of an MVP list of 3 things that have to get done to call the day a win, I have a laundry list of 21 things… and growing.
2. I haven’t prioritized anything on my list by quadrants (1 - urgent and important, 2 - important but not urgent, 3 – urgent but not important)
3. I’m just wandering around the house doing pieces of one thing before bouncing to something else. It’s 10:45 and finishing this message will be the first thing I actually complete.

 
However, right now I am okay with breaking these rules. I may get to the point later today where I go back to being strategic, but right now it feels okay to meander around. At this moment, that is the best I am capable of.
 
Please take two lessons from today’s message:

1. When you break your rules, do so consciously and with intention.
2. As BB King said (paraphrasing), “Every day I do my best, but some days my best is better than other days.”

 
The daily message is going on a two-week hiatus and will return January 4, 2021.
 
Have a great holiday season!
 
Do good and be well,
 
Frederick