View this email in your browser (*|ARCHIVE|*) https://andrew-davis.io https://andrew-davis.io ** This is Day One ------------------------------------------------------------ Today is day one of the rest of your life. There are infinite possibilities in front of you. But they are completely invisible. Only your imagination can give you some taste of what might come. We need to learn to become comfortable and joyful in this space of vast possibilities. Today is the first day of my retirement. Two weeks ago, I announced that I was stepping down from my role at AutoRABIT to focus full-time on writing and building the Institute for Transformational Leadership. This email is a downpayment on delivering a new book, translating Buddha’s teachings into the language of today. And it’s a first step towards building a daily writing habit (https://jamesclear.com/stop-procrastinating-seinfeld-strategy) . When we were first conceived, there was infinite possibility. Every living being emerges in this way. We inherit the old: genetically, culturally, and environmentally. But we are also continually creating and emerging into the new. Situated between the past and the future, there is infinite uncertainty. The most appropriate emotional response to this is joy, wonder, and bliss: A feeling of overwhelming gratitude for those who came before, that which supports us; A feeling of overwhelming wonder at the sense of possibility. In particular, knowing that it is not just us, in a narrow sense, who is facing this unknown potential. Every living being is in this same space of possibility. We are not alone. We have never been alone. We could never be alone. It is only a trick of our self-grasping mind that makes us tighten and squeeze and feel isolated. Jeff Bezos at Amazon set forth Day One as a cornerstone of their company’s philosophy. Recognizing that the space of future possibility is always far greater and more vast than we can imagine. We should regard every day as Day One. We must make our decisions wisely, knowing that we overestimate what is possible in one year, and we underestimate what is possible in ten years. https://x.com/andrewdavis_io https://www.andrewdavis.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewdavis-io/ https://andrew-davis.io Copyright (C) *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*. All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|**|LIST:DESCRIPTION|**|END:IF|* Our mailing address is: *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|**|LIST_ADDRESS|**|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences (*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) or unsubscribe (*|UNSUB|*)