TOOLS

What do the following...a computer, violin, paintbrush, fishing rod, metronome, sewing machine, thought, scalpel, book, spinnaker, fork, spreadsheet, language, football, meditation...all have in common? You guessed it. They’re tools.

What makes a tool a tool? I’m a tool guy...so I tend to think of almost anything as a tool. Hammers. Screw drivers. Saws. All of the above. But if we spread eagle our thinking a bit the answers become even more engaging...NASA/SpaceX partnerships...Covid-19 vaccine...social protest. Whether simple or sophisticated, individual or collective, tools are extensions of ourselves--products or adaptations of our imagination--that expand our human pleasure and potential. Sometimes exponentially so.

So I have a riddle for you: What comes standard issue, yet is the most valuable tool each of us will ever wield. In fact, we use it 24/7. It’s so simple to operate that a child can do it (sometimes better than us adults) yet so sophisticated that it can complete multiple functions on multiple levels simultaneously for us whether we’re awake or asleep. It’s so essential that our bodies can’t function without it for a nanosecond. We need it to operate absolutely every other tool of every other kind we’ll ever create. We can even use it to autocorrect. Yet, we often operate as if we don’t have one!

What is it? Right again. Our mind.

Then, doesn’t it make sense to get to know its full capacity...to properly maintain and care for it...to regularly sharpen and improve it...to frequently explore new ways of using it--in short, to make the very most of its power and potential every single day?

Just thinking.

TODAY.
DO YOURSELF & THE WORLD A FAVOR
TAKE TIME TO THINK ABOUT HOW YOU THINK.