Success is a journey of successive steps in succession. I'm a big, big believer in having a morning routine, an afternoon routine, and an evening routine to keep those steps in line. Because in Feng Shui "bad luck moves in straight lines", you want to meander a bit in between the parallel lines of bad luck. For inspiration, I promote six to eight changes of scenery for every "work/life" day. My personal routine is:

• Sunrise yoga with Keith and Sally
• Morning Coffee Meetup (actually, tea for me but you do you!)
• Hot Pilates with Jordan (Sound mind in sound body!)
• Smoothie Shop with Kellyie for a 15-minute status check-in
• Library / cafe for tea, WiFi, and blogging
• Sunset yoga
• Decompress / Scout TikTok trends
• Evening entrepreneur meetup / mixer

That's not a rigid prescription. These are more like guideposts on the day's journey through entrepeneurship. As Confucius asked: "Where should we eat lunch?" It may not be in a book, but I'm sure he said it in at least once, except in Chinese. He wasn't philosophizing 24/7. Unless that IS deep and I haven't examined it closely enough yet...

Anyway, allow at least 20-30 minutes in between each of these events to decide which cafe, coffee house, or smoothie shop each of meeting. Someone from ancient Greek or Latin once said that "the unexamined life is meaningless". That means taking time to carefully consider the merits of a venue's view, parking options, and small plate offerings.

Success is like a pattern of "emergence", like flocking birds spontaneously creating complex flows in flight. The same way life itself springs from a certain collection of inanimate molecules for unknown reasons, like free WiFi, Success is an invisible force which inhabits yet transcends the various coffee houses, pilates classes, and smoothie shops of Southern California. You can't plan for serendipitous one in a million insights, but you can increase the opportunity by at least a tenth by 10X-ing the frequency of your weekly meetups.

As I write this post and consider my twelve-year founder's journey, it's uncanny how similar the days look. Even with the unpredictability of life's ebbs and flows, the habits of entrepreneurship emerge.  My friends and fellow entrepreneurs may not have corralled their Unicorns yet, but there's no single formula for success. Let's get together and talk about our dreams!