My four kids are, shall we say, not the best at looking for things.
I do have a degree of empathy for them as it’s probably not my best skill either.
And I’m sure my parents would confirm I was worse when I was younger.
But one thing that has changed since I was the same age is what they do when they can’t find something pretty much immediately.
They stop looking.
Get quickly distracted by a screen.
It’s quite a common occurrence that they ask me where something is………
I tell them that “I don’t know” (as I’ve had nothing to do with it)………
They start looking………
And two minutes later I see they are on their phone.
“I couldn’t find it” they say.
“Well keep looking then” I usually respond.
The answer when you can’t find something is not to stop looking.
It is to keep looking.
The process works.
We just haven’t done enough of it.
We haven’t completed the process of looking for long enough to achieve the desired outcome of finding.
And stopping the process will never help us achieve the outcome.
And the same applies to getting in shape.
Eating in a calorie deficit and doing regular progressive exercise is the process.
The desired outcome being the improved body shape, composition and health and fitness.
Tempting as it might be, when those outcomes aren’t coming, the answer is not to stop that process.
Even if we’re not doing it as consistently as we’d like, we’ll be getting better results than not doing it at all.
Maybe we’ll slow down and speed up on the process as circumstance dictates……….
But stopping completely is never the answer (I guarantee that you’ll find better forward progress at www.myrise.co.uk/apply)
The process works. We just haven’t done enough of it.
Much love,
Jon ‘Looking For Alaska’ Hall
