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I saw a quote the other day that I liked.

From Lance Armstrong.

Let’s all just “park” his naughty drug cheating business, yeah?

It doesn’t make the quote any less thought provoking.

From after he had recovered from cancer.

“I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.”

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The human brain is very good at taking things for granted, isn’t it.

To focus on the one or two “less good” things that happened in a day / week / month / year……………

And instantly forget the stuff that was somewhere between “ok” and “brilliant”.

We plan to do something, do it and then instantly forget.

Expected behaviour.

“What? I planned to do it and did it. Move on. Next!”

The more we are able to recognise, remember and celebrate what went well…………

The more we train our brain to stop taking things for granted………….

The more context the “less good” stuff gets put in to.

I would bet that on the vast majority of the days of our lives, at least 90% of the day went well.

We did the overwhelming majority of things we intended to do as we planned.

We had a life that many across the world would kill for and is, on average, unrecognisably better than 100 years ago.

As we mentioned the other weeks, it’s just “reps”.

The more reps we put into taking things for granted and focussing on the “less good” stuff, the better we get at that.

The more reps we put into appreciating what’s good in our lives and what’s going well, the better we get at that.

It might feel a step too far for now.

But everything we’ve ever got better at seemed like that at times.

Could we consider what would it look like if we “took nothing for granted”?

What would it look like if we “now have only good days, or great days”?

Much love,

Jon ‘Mitchell’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.