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What practices do I need? Well, I start my day before I go out into the world,
before I jump on social media, with some practices to ground myself.
And so for me, personally now last three years or so, my mornings start
with a few minutes of meditation and then some devotional prayer time.
In the last year or so I’ve added writing a morning message of love and encouragement
to my wife. And I now do this routine every single morning to make sure I start each day
the same way. By grounding myself to be ready to be open hearted and vigilant. So that
gets back to the person-role-system framework, how do you start with yourself?
Then we can get into what do our organizations need to be doing? What are the routines
and practices our organizations need to be doing? Likewise, what would an organization
do each day that would equip that organization with collective vigilance? And with
practices to build each other up and hold each other accountable, calling in and calling
out. These practices will support the individual vigilance and be collective communal
vigilance. The solutions are at the microlevel. It’s about us down here on the ground,
block by block, neighbor to neighbor, colleague to colleague.
Proximity as Bryan Stevenson says.
—Mark Joseph
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