42 - Grease

Full transcript here 👋 Hey, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. This is your life. This is your chance. Listen. The word for today is grease. No, I’m not talking about the color, the musical or the country. I’m talking about social lotion. When I taught 2nd grade, I noticed that the spots in the school day where interactions were most likely to break down were times of transition. Many teachers use songs or chants while students move from one activity or area to another, and these grease the tracks of the transition. What’s an area of your day that needs a little grease? Lots of people benefit from audiobooks and podcasts on their commute or while exercising. You might also consider advance preparation, such as having coffee automatically brew before you wake up. There are myriad tiny ways that you can smooth the kinks in your day. Today’s concrete challenge is to identify one transition time in your day that is often unpleasant and come up with some grease that you can generously apply to that situation. Be sure to write down your plan. Use the next few minutes of this podcast to find your grease. I’ll keep the music playing for you. Let me know if this made a difference in your day by leaving a comment in your podcast app or at concrete.win/today. Check back tomorrow for a new challenge. Until then.