Subtract to Succeed

Subtract to Succeed

Day 50: One Drop, Three Ripples

You STOPped. You DROPped. Now watch what happens.

Mar 12, 2026
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🎵 Today’s song: Extraordinary — Liz Phair

Today’s roll holds huge potential.

By experimenting with letting go of one single self-limiting identity, you make major ripples.

You might just get that promotion, date, new personal record, or sense of peace.

While also modeling to someone around you (whether or not you see them watching) that it is possible to drop our unhelpful stories about who we are, or aren’t.

Bonus: if you recognize and thank your ‘Che,’ who has helped you see beyond this identity, you give them the gift of being seen for their power.

And finally, you chip away one more tile from our deeply problematic collective bias about who people are, or aren’t, based on what we see of them.

That’s all. That's the multiplicative power of one well-chosen DROP.

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