 I want to talk about something about ego depletion. This is about emotional energy reserved you have available for any number of things I'm not a good example of it. Matter of fact, I'm a piss-poor example of it. Look at my body This is what happens when you don't treat yourself with respect when you don't honor your place when you don't honor your own time My body is a ramification of me self-sacrificing to duty to principal To workload to obligations. It's a form of servitude You do not want to get biologically out of control and out of check My health markers are abysmal. I have any number of predispositions for fatality and it is a hard fight back Luckily, I surround myself with excellence. I always have I've been very fortunate with that I have the ability to actually sit down and talk to James Steele about any number of things Then run over to talk to mr. John and a and talk about hey, how about this? How do you deserve a sleep study dealing with how do I you know raise my self-care? With my stress levels because if your stress levels are not matched by self-care They're gonna be out of whack and you're gonna be running on an empty tank And you're gonna end up what I end up frequently. I end up with pneumonia Three times in five years kick it on the ass my time spent with my family who I see once a year Spent in bed in pneumonia barely able to stand not a cool place. And by the way, that's kind of easy you get over pneumonia I'm not gonna get over the heart attack that kills me All right morale You have to understand morale Morales kind of fleeting. It's also very nebulous. Okay, the best way I can kind of describe it is consider running a marathon How do you feel when you cross that finish line? You're gonna be a static your morale is gonna be high And I'll change in an instant when I have to tell you have to walk all the way back Understand what workload shifting will do what morale will do to your energy to your sense of motivation To the momentum you build up. You want to be conscious about it morale is also contagious You want to know where morale is really important? Look at life-and-death situations Who are the people contending with life-and-death situations and look at how they manage morale? individual military All right morale is contagious. How do you think they manage that? They cut negativity short quick, and I mean really fucking quick not only that they actually promote positivity Tremendous amount of positivity even if it's artificial There's no better day to be in the military than right now fine-ass damn day Dark rainy sleet rain mud didn't matter. What was the response damn fine day to be in the US Army? I'm a goddamn rock star. I'm an American not only am I an American. I'm an American fucking soldier Damn fine day to be in the mud It's morale. All right, learn other things other great athletes sports team same damn thing Think of any of these things that teams do to build morale Okay, to make sure they think they can do whatever they're gonna do be highly competitive and They're gonna perform You're concerned about performance Monitor your morale Focus and sustainment Interesting thing on focus is it's a form of discipline and it's not a Discipline of where you focus on success and one of the things I really like about Steve Martin is Not as comedic genius But a sense of success and his discipline of focus It's not the projects. He said yes to it was a project. He said no do We can all say no to the easy things the cheap things It's the things that hurt Okay, it's the presentations. I didn't see today because I was tired and I knew I needed to present My job's not here to see the presentations. God. I love them. There's some people I really would have wanted to spend more time with but I knew I needed to get my rest I wanted to be sharp. I wanted to be awake. I wanted to be able to deliver You have to be able to make the costly decisions of saying no And if you don't have an ability to say no, you're not gonna be successful. It's not the yeses that make wins. It's the nose