Carpe Punctum

Today I’m starting a new personal development program called Heroic Elite. It’s designed to help you become capable of achieving an incredibly inspiring goal in 101 days. I’m just starting it, but the program is grounded in daily disciplines that raise your standard and create the energetic and focused environment you need to be successful. 

On a daily basis, we’re tasked to fill out our daily performance in a journal they created called 'Carpe Diem'. As you probably know,  'Carpe Diem' means “Seize the day” in Latin. And while that’s the observable timeline we’re choosing to track in this program, the work goes one step further:

Carpe Punctum: Seize the moment.

A day with good outcomes is only made possible by a long sequence of positive moments. This means it’s upon us to show up moment to moment as the most focused, present, and aligned version of ourselves. Heroic calls this living with “arete”, which they translate to “expressing your best-self virtues moment to moment to moment.”

In modern language, I call this living with intentionality, which is the combination of having the awareness to know what the right choice is at any given moment, and the discipline to faithfully follow through on it despite the circumstances. 

Our days are fought and won in these moment by moment battles. Good vs Evil. Daimon vs Demon. As Mark Divine puts it - the Courage Wolf vs the Fear Wolf. The more consistently we make the right choices, the more moments we win and the more of the day we have seized.

So to live a ‘Carpe Punctum' life - with ‘arete’ and intentionality - you need to cultivate more awareness and discipline. Awareness to know what most serves you, what your options are, what’s most likely to come from the choices you make… And Discipline to overcome the feelings of laziness, doubt, resistance, and obstacles that get in the way of you and doing what most serves you.

And at the very least, if you lose that battle in any given moment, recommit to fighting in the next and understanding what it was about that moment that defeated you. Because then the next time your poised to fight it, it won’t have as much power over you.

The Heroic Elite 101 day program will be a great tool to accomplish exactly that. If you’re looking for something advanced that’ll hold you to a higher standard than you’ve ever achieved, then check it out!

Or if you’re looking for something more intermediate, that helps you establish the foundation you need to make the most of every moment and, every day, I run a 21 Day Super Habits Challenge that’s just for you!