In yesterday’s blog, I mentioned the Archimedes quote “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”
Part of the problem we often have when trying to make changes is that we position that fulcrum too close to us.
We go for a version of something that would, in theory, create ‘great movement’………….
But requires more force than we can realistically apply.
So nothing actually happens.
Sometimes moving that fulcrum a little bit further away creates way more movement.
Because the force required is doable for us.
That knowingly suboptimal and done version always beating the theoretically better, but deferred method.
And, from my experience (lots), there’s usually equally (or more) effective things that we can do that are considerably easier.
We get in our head that we have to slog through hour long workouts and cut out all food and drink that we enjoy.
That getting in shape involves living like a monk.
Sacrifice.
Being miserable.
But we can just choose equally effective, but more enjoyable ways of exercising (cough *** www.myrise.co.uk/apply *** cough)
We can just choose to make some tactical swaps and create more appropriate portion sizes (I’ll come back to this on Monday).
Ultimately, if the version of something we choose to do positions a fulcrum that just makes it too hard to move………..
We either need to ‘move the fulcrum’ to an position that we can do………..
Or, even better, find a ‘better fulcrum’ – an equally effective method that’s easier.
Much love,
Jon ‘I only learned today that the entire inside of a loaf of bread is know as ‘the crumb’ and that’s not just the term for a little bit of that’ Hall
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