“If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.” Franz Liszt Successful people all have one trait in common: a bias towards action. It’s an attitude and lifestyle that builds a life of meaning. What looks to the world like high performance is often as simple as checking boxes off a list. Pilots have a concept called “airtime.” To get your full flight license, you must log a certain number of hours actually in the air. No more theory, books, and simulators, but actually getting in the cockpit and off the ground. It may only be for a short time and nothing dramatic may happen, but you’ve clocked a few more hours in the clouds. In Jiu Jitsu they call this “mat time,” where you get away from all the analyzing […]

August 2026 Issue