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What gear do you use when you pull your car off it’s parking spot in the morning?
First I should assume.
Then you work up and down the gears depending on the circumstances you’re facing.
Road layout, traffic, speed limits and so on.
What would happen if you tried to start in fifth?
You’d stall.
It wouldn’t take doing that many times (once probably) before you realised that starting in first and moving up and down the gears made more sense.
But……….
We often do the equivalent with out health and fitness goals.
Attempt to go from the equivalent of standing still to 100mph in one go.
Straight from no exercise and not eating great…………
To trying to train every day, as hard as humanly possible, grinding ourselves into the floor……….
And start living like a monk – halving our food intake, no booze, no sugar, no anything.
And, what happens?
We stall.
It’s too much.
A missed workout or bad meal soon spirals into a return to those old habits.
It’s that old ‘all or nothing’ mindset that limits us so much.
Always remember there is something between ‘parked’ and ‘fifth gear’ (myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting is your first step if you’ve been stuck in ‘park’ recently).
Work up and down those gears as circumstance (life) dictates.
Hit fifth when you can.
But recognise that dropping to third (or even second or first) is fine if needs be.
Just try and stop stalling?
Much love,
Jon ‘My first car had four gears. It was a burgundy Vauxhall Nova, registration D175 EFA that I bought for £875 from a garage in Ashbourne in February 1997 if you’re interested. I remember that car more clearly than the one I’m driving now, which is slightly worrying’ Hall and Matt ‘Sold every car I’ve owned for a profit’ Nicholson
