If you wanted to get fluent at French ASAP, what would be the best way?
Go and live in France for a year I should imagine.
But what if you couldn’t do that?
You could do lessons, some sort of home study, use and app and so on.
All good but it would just take longer to get fluent.
Or, realistically, you might not get fluent – deciding that “pretty good” is good enough.
And waaayyyy better than you were.
And that’s fine because moving to France for a year isn’t feasible for most people.
It’s the same with getting in shape.
Many FitPros will tell you the “best” or “quickest” way to get in shape.
Often involving training for hours every day.
And giving up half the stuff you enjoy and living like a monk.
Sure, it would work.
But it just isn’t feasible for most people.
A ‘sub-optimal’ approach is fine.
It might take a bit longer.
Or, realistically, you might not get in cover model shape – deciding that “pretty good” is good enough.
And waaayyyy better than you were.
Let’s say ‘A’ is the average of what you’ve done for the last decade (or more).
‘Z’ is what the guys you see on the front of Men’s Health do.
A and Z aren’t the only options.
Go as ‘high up the alphabet’ as you find ok.
On average.
Most of the time.
Have some As here and there.
Maybe, when you’re feeling it, hit a few Rs or Ws.
But average a good H (or similar).
Much love,
Jon ‘Frogs legs’ Hall and Matt ‘Snails’ Nicholson
P.S. If you (or a friend) want to try a ‘sub-optimal’ approach that produced better results than all the ‘optimal’ ones around here put together (precisely because it is sub-optimal and, therefore, doable), then it’s the find out more meeting tomorrow night. Don’t “leave it” for another month –>myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
