Stop chasing accomplishments — focus on who you're becoming
“But I've come to realize it's it's not what you have accomplished in your life that matters, but who you are becoming and have become along the way. That's been on my mind a lot recently. I don't wanna live this life to just have a portfolio of all of my accomplishments, a resume of all of the things I've done, a LinkedIn profile to say where I've worked and how long and what positions I held and what we achieved within that organization during my time there. That's not the intent. The intent is, who are you becoming?”
“I came across this article in the New York Times about the old Pizza Huts. I grew up going to Pizza Hut with my family. It was all these images and photos of the old Pizza Huts. It was the the red and white checkered, tablecloths. It was the stained glass lights and windows. It had a salad bar. Ours in Hershey, Pennsylvania had a jukebox, dimly lit. It was the best. I'd walk over to the jukebox and I would play two songs every time. I would play Creed, My Sacrifice, and I would play Will Smith, Getin' Jiggy Wit It.”
“So I'm patiently waiting for that new challenge to be presented in front of me. And I'm learning to be patient in a season of waiting for that to be placed in front of me within God's timing and God's will. And that obedience in itself is a challenge. Maybe that is the challenge. Maybe the obedience and faithfulness in the waiting, in the patience, is the challenge that I'm hoping and looking for.”
“So this year, they're both coming back for redemption. The race ended last year as a tie between Kim and Kendall because this wild storm came through and ended the race. This crazy storm came in through Central Texas, destroyed the ranch, destroyed the course, destroyed the house that we remodeled on the ranch. And we spent the last year pretty much getting the the course, the trails back up to condition, the house back up to condition.”
Parents must trade control for influence and teaching
“And I eventually learned the hard way that you can't control everything in the moment. And sometimes you just have to embrace the chaos and allow yourself to live in the chaos and teach and influence your children how to clean up, what to do and what not to do, but not follow them around and clean it up for them. That's, like I said, perhaps the most humbling and profound lesson that is applicable, not just to emptying cabinets and drawers and trash and all of those things, but realizing that you can't control everything, especially as young parents.”
“The value action gap is the inconsistency between a person's stated values or beliefs and their actual behaviors. We wanna close the value action gap. People say they value one thing, they believe in one thing, and then their actions reflect otherwise. That's a problem. Doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. If you say you believe in one thing and you value one thing, but then your actions say otherwise, you can't be trusted with anything because you don't even know what you believe in.”
“All that to say, I'm leaving the Garmin family. I bought a new watch yesterday. This vision came to me. I acted on the vision right away. I ordered a g shock. Now, the g shock watch is what I wore when I was in the army. And back then, I'd go for a run. I didn't track any of my mileage on a run or my pace. I'd go run for an hour. I looked at my watch. Alright. It's 1PM. I'm gonna go run till 2PM.”
“Because with retail, it has a huge upside and opportunity if done right, but there's also a huge risk in liability if done wrong. Where you go wrong is if you try to get into way too many doors way too fast and your velocity isn't there, meaning your sell through, how fast and how many products or units you are moving at a specified rate within that retail store, if you don't have strong velocities, those retail partners will drop you. And that makes success in the future for retail very challenging.”
“What I'm not loving is the pressure we put on ourselves to constantly entertain the seriousness of life and the stress, the unnecessary stress or stressors that we add on to life when they're really not that big of deals. And I believe, and I want my kids to see this as they grow up, that you can work really, really hard. You can be ruthlessly ambitious towards your goals, but still have fun and still joke around and not take things or yourself too serious.”
