I’m a massive fan of working smarter.
Maximizing the highest return on investment activities.
Not just grinding away with things that don’t necessarily help as much as we might think.
But it’s also powerful to recognize that sometimes we’re not just putting the effort in.
We’re just not getting the reps in on what would help.
We are not trying hard enough at the things that would give us the results we desire.
Because it’s super easy to ‘peter out’ on doing something when the results don’t come quickly.
We don’t necessarily consciously give up on it…
We just lose a bit of focus and motivation with it as “it doesn’t seem to be working”.
It becomes something that we’ve “tried”.
That “didn’t work for me”.
But a powerful way to question that is to ask how long we actually spent trying…
And to imagine that we had done it consistently for a fair period of time.
I’ve had countless conversations with people where they’ve expressed that “I’ve tried meditation and it didn’t work for me”.
When I ask how long they’ve spent trying it, it usually equates to less than an hour total in their entire life.
Probably under 10 minutes.
If that’s the case, what would your answer be to the question “Imagine that you’d meditated every day for the last 10 years. Do you think that would have made zero difference on how you’re feeling and your mood and mental health now?”.
If the answer to that is “Yes”, then that’s cool.
It’s just a question.
But I’d wager for most people they would have seen a difference.
And I could ask similar questions of lots of things.
Countless people have told me that tracking their food doesn’t work for them because it’s “too much of a faff”.
But few questions quickly show that they essentially gave up on it after about two minutes.
It’s tempting to stop exercising where we don’t feel we’re seeing results after a month.
Forgetting that we’ve put a total amount of time equivalent to one working day in so far.
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We revert back to old eating habits when we’re not seeing progress despite the fact that we put about two more minutes per meal in for a total of less than an hour actual effort.
I’m all for working smarter and doing the most effective things for you, especially when you focus on fitness.
But sometimes we just need to get enough reps in.
Actually spend enough time on it to produce the results.
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Much love,
Jon ‘elapsed’ Hall
