Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day

by Todd Henry

The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard. In the graveyard are buried all of the unwritten novels, never-launched businesses, unreconciled relationships, and all of the other things that people thought, ‘I’ll get around to that tomorrow.’ One day, however, their tomorrows ran out.”

the most valuable land

Die Empty. I want to know that if I lay my head down tonight and don’t wake up tomorrow, I have emptied myself of whatever creativity is lingering inside, with minimal regrets about how I spent my focus, time, and energy. This doesn’t happen by accident; it takes intentional and sustained effort. But I can say with confidence from my own experience and the experiences of others I’ve worked with that the effort is well worth it.

die empty

Brilliant work is forged by those who consistently approach their days with urgency and diligence. Urgency means leveraging your finite resources (focus, assets, time, energy) in a meaningful and productive way. Diligence means sharpening your skills and conducting your work in a manner that you won’t regret later. When you adopt the mind-set of urgent diligence, you’ll pour all of who you are into your days, and subsequently you’ll find that the unique value you bring to the world comes more clearly into focus.

Brilliant Work

When you’re gone, your work will stand as the single biggest testament to who you were and what you believed. By “your work,”

Your Work

the only way to effectively gauge my work is to answer the question Can I lay my head down tonight satisfied with the work I did today?

Question

The key to long-term success is a willingness to disrupt your own comfort for the sake of continued growth. To

explore the edges of your problem: Aspirations, Affinities,

Failure doesn’t always mean defeat; it only means that you fell short of accomplishing your objective.