Curtiss R Calhoun

Pressure exposes the behaviors we don’t realize we’re running.

In this breakdown of the Osaka–Cîrstea post-match handshake, I unpack why that tense moment happened, how pressure distorted their reactions, and what it reveals about our own hidden default behaviors.

This isn’t really about tennis, it’s about every high-stakes interaction you’ve ever had.

If you’ve ever thought, “Why did I react like that?” This is one that will hit home.

Check out my article on Substack

       

When critical thinking drops, our defaults take over, and that is what determines our outcomes.

If we don’t design your defaults, we gamble with our results.

If we engineer them, we control the moment, even under pressure.

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Seattle Ranks #2 In The Country for Work Stress And Burnout, According to Study Looking At Most Anxious U.S. Cities

A new study from Compare the Market ranked U.S. cities after analyzing how often people searched online for stress- and anxiety-related terms. These included phrases like “work burnout,” “how to deal with work stress,” and “anxiety symptoms.” 

Seattle ranked as the second city most affected by burnout, showing high levels of work-related anxiety among its workers. Over the past year, people in Seattle searched for “stress relief” more than 4,990 times.

Here’s the full ranking of the top 10 most stressed and anxious cities:

1. Atlanta
2. Seattle
3. San Francisco
4. Denver
5. Boston
6. Las Vegas
7. Washington D.C.
8. Baltimore
9. Kansas City
10. Portland

Suprimify™ is a firm that helps high-performance professionals, leaders, and teams build clarity, identity, decision-making, and ex*****on systems for predictable results.

Equitable development is core to how we build at Tubman Health. As we move forward with Lydig Construction on the Tubman Health Center build, we’re expanding opportunities for subcontractors and suppliers, especially those historically excluded and/or in line with our values.

Ensuring that our contracting partners reflect the diversity and strength of our region is essential to our vision. Inclusive contracting strengthens local economies, supports innovation, and keeps community power at the center.

Subcontractors and suppliers interested in partnering with the TCHF | Lydig team are invited to learn more and complete the interest form: www.lydig.com/projects/healthcare-research/tubman-center-for-health-freedom/

In person info session this Saturday 12-06-2025 @ 1pm PST at Rainier Beach Community Center.

Get the information you need to work on this project.

Let folks know who you know are in the industry.

Peace to all my REALIFERS and REALEADERS. Happy Wednesday!

REALEADER Business Point of the Day:

💡 REALIFER 9.0 - REALIFERS are conscious of their Physical and Mental Diet.

💼 REALEADER Business Insight:
High-performing leaders know this: Your inputs shape your intelligence, your energy, your decision-making, and your leadership presence. The meetings you take, the conversations you entertain, the content you consume, and the food you use to fuel your body all directly impact how effectively you lead.

REALEADERS don’t operate on autopilot, they curate their diet.
They choose environments, information, and habits that sharpen their clarity and increase their impact.

🚀 Quick Leadership Move:
Audit your intake today:
• What are you watching?
• What are you reading?
• Who are you listening to?
• What’s fueling your body?
Pick one upgrade that strengthens your leadership.

🔥 REALEADER Reminder:
Strong leaders are built from the inside out. Protect your inputs, they determine your output.

Peace to all my REALIFERS and REALEADERS. Happy Tuesday!

REALEADER Business Point of the Day:

💡 REALIFER 8.3 - Create environments that produce situations to optimize your growth and success.

💼 Business Insight:
High-performance isn’t accidental. REALEADERS design environments where clarity, accountability, and efficiency allow people to operate at their best. When the environment improves, performance naturally elevates with it.

🚀 Quick Leadership Move:
Ask yourself:

👉🏾 "What one change can I make today that will help my team work better?”

💥 Remove a bottleneck. Clarify a process. Strengthen communication.

🎯 REALEADER Reminder:
Improve the environment, and you improve the results.

Peace to all my REALIFERS. Happy Monday!

Here is today’s REALEADER Business Excellence Point of the Day:

💡 REALIFER 8.2 - Never be satisfied with your current reality. Always be working toward your ideal, better (REAL) self.

💼 REALEADER Insight:
In business, complacency is the quickest path to decline. REALEADERS honor their progress, but they never settle for “good enough.” Whether it’s your systems, your leadership style, your communication, or your ex*****on, there is always room to refine, optimize, and elevate.

Great leaders don’t chase perfection; they chase improvement.
Small upgrades compound into massive advantage.

💥 Power Point:
Your current performance is not your ceiling, it’s your baseline. REALEADERS consistently evaluate, adjust, and innovate to match their ideal future selves and the evolving needs of their organizations.

🚀 Quick Power Move:
Ask yourself:

👉🏾 “What is one area of my leadership or business that no longer reflects where I’m going?”

🎯 Fix it. Upgrade it. Delegate it.
Movement toward your ideal self is movement toward business excellence.

🔥 REALEADER Reminder:
A team rises to the level of its leadership. When you evolve, everything around you elevates with you.

Peace to all my REALIFERS. Happy Friday! We made it! 

Here’s today’s REALIFER (REALEADER) Business Point of the Day:

💡 REALIFER 8.1 Know that who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow.

💼 REALEADER Insight: In leadership and business, stagnation is the silent killer. REALEADERS understand that greatness is not fixed, it’s forged. Who you are today as a leader, decision-maker, communicator, or strategist does not limit who you can become. Every challenge, every failure, every success is shaping a more capable, more refined version of you.

💥 Power Point: REALEADERS don’t cling to outdated versions of themselves. They evolve. They adapt. They upgrade their mindset, their systems, and their behaviors to meet the demands of the future. Identity is not a ceiling, it’s a launchpad.

🚀 Quick Power Move: Ask yourself today: “What trait, habit, or behavior does tomorrow’s version of me operate with and how can I start practicing that now?”
Leadership excellence comes from micro-evolutions practiced consistently.

🎯 REALEADER Reminder: Better leaders build better teams, better culture, and better results. Your next level of leadership begins the moment you decide that today is not your final form.

       

Peace to all my REALIFERS. Happy Thursday!

Here is today’s REALIFER Point of the day:

💡 REALIFER 8.0 - Realifers are aware of who they are right now, with ambitions to improve.

💼 Business Excellence Point: High-performing leaders don’t guess who they are, they know. They understand their strengths, their gaps, their patterns, and their potential. REALIFER leaders (REALEADERS) stay grounded in reality while staying hungry for the next level. Awareness creates alignment. Ambition drives ex*****on.

🚀 Quick Power Move:
Ask yourself and your team today:

👉🏾 “Where are we strongest and where are we ready to elevate?”

🎯 Better clarity leads to better strategy… which always leads to better results.

Peace to all my REALIFERS! Happy Tuesday!

Here is today’s REALIFER Point of the day...

💡 REALIFER 7.2 - Remain optimistic regardless of your current situation or circumstances.

💥 Power Point: Circumstances shift but your mindset defines how you experience them. REALIFERS choose optimism not because everything is perfect, but because they know their outlook shapes their outcome. Hope keeps you focused on what can be instead of what isn’t yet.

🚀 Quick Power Move: The next time life feels uncertain, remind yourself: “This moment won’t last, but my attitude will determine how I come out of it.” Choose to see beyond the struggle, that’s the REALIFER way.