1/ Some unsolicited advice.

A few people I admire and mentor were obsessed with the current news cycle––distracted + distraught with disbelief almost daily.

My advice was THIS:

2/ Stop hitting refresh on the news like an addicted caged rat looking for a hit of joy or anger

With so much to lose for so many in power––there is NO UNCERTAINTY. 

You know this: there is total CERTAINTY that there will be total chaos daily for weeks to come...

3/
You know this:
that few maybe none of those events are in your control. 

You know this:
you can control only what is in your control

1. voting (unless or until you can’t)
2. where you direct your attention + focus
3. how you choose to feel...

4/ Without investing intentional energy––the chaos will pull you down a drain on an endless journey without escape

Your friends and family will keep you in it as they commiserate and lament the chaos + distraction as their friends are doing the same

BUT––

5/ If you like them (or love them;)–– don’t let them.

Instead: lead + inspire them.

Avg + below avg people will be sucked down w/the masses.
You + yours are not average.
You + yours are better than that.

Whatever their job, joy, purpose, they mustnt’ let it get hijacked...

6/ Shake them from their head-shaking.

Remind them to fight the entropy + enmity in the world by doing good things. By doing really good things...

7/ Whether that is
-producing art
-serving others
-treating patients
-teaching students
-promoting justice
-accelerating tech progress
-advancing cures + treatments
-educating or entertaining people
-empowering + inspiring others, reducing human suffering

Fierce focus on that..

8/ Your (and their) time + attention are the scarcest resource

Willingly paying it to others in an unscripted circus show––as a passive spectator, a captive audience member gasping and cheering––is a squandering abdication of your own ambition and the good you must put out.

9/ Get up, get out, get at it––and get away from the vortex.