918. Same Shift, Different Day.

Have you ever asked someone how they are doing and they respond by saying, "Same shit, different day."

You might feel like you're working the same job, walking into the same rooms, dealing with the same people and problems.
 But what if you started to see new opportunities within those same environments?

You don’t need a new environment.
 You need new awareness.

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All right. 3, 2, 1. Let's get it. You ever ask someone how they're doing and they hit you with the same shit different day? A phrase always sticks with me. Not because it's deep, but because it shows. How stuck we get, and honestly, sometimes the problem isn't our circumstances, sometimes we're just not seeing what's possible within them. This morning I was reading sticky notes, memorable Lessons from Ordinary Moments by Matt Egel, dinger. He's a sixth grade teacher who spent years collecting ordinary conversations and moments with his students on sticky notes and eventually turned them into a book. And I really liked the book because they were little short passages, man. They're just like little one pages and one story really stood out for me. It was about a student named Natasha. And she had to go into the hospital for surgery and was gonna have to stay there for a little while, for recovery. And so when Matt checked in with her family, they said that she was doing good physically, but that she missed her classmates a whole lot. So Matt decided to do something different about it, he took a few students and began logging into the game Minecraft during lunch to play with her online and it caught Fire. More students began playing with her after school, and even some of the kids who were being hospitalized joined into and before long this small idea. Turned into a big community, and Matt wrote, sometimes you think your class as a finite environment because you're in the same room all day and it feels restrictive. But we forget to realize that the confines of that place also have the ability to expand. That's what I think about the game. Minecraft, you can build whatever physical class you want, but given the opportunity, kids will take what you made and turn it into something better. That's the shift, same shift, different day, different perspective. You might feel like that you working the same job, walking into the same room, dealing with the same people, with the same problems day in and day out. But what if you started to see new opportunities? Within those environments. You don't need a new environment. You need a new awareness. Case in point, a new hire can walk into your job and see better, more efficient ways of doing something that you've been doing for years and you're like, oh my God, I didn't even know I could even do that. Someone else can walk into the same gym that you've trained at forever and transform their life using the same equipment that you barely even noticed. Someone else can open up YouTube and use it to learn, grow, and build. You can use social media for growth instead of gossip. You can also turn your commute into creative time instead of just burning gas and daylight. It's all about how you look at it. So let me ask you this. What's your Minecraft today? What can you build differently with what's already around you? That same shift doesn't have to feel like the same old shit. You've got the freedom and the responsibility to take what's been made and turn it into something better. Keep it simple. Keep it moving. Never settle. Stay tough. Peace.