A lot of my life I was trying to achieve in some manic state. You know, intensity. I would do n units of work, and n was always something close to the physcial maximum possible in a perfect day.
I’d say, “I’ll do these every day,” and it would be a 10-12 hour day. I’d get initial results.
This would happen at the gym (losing the first 10 pounds is a well trodden trail for me).
This would happen at work (finding a sale when I need one is something I am good at).
This would happen at home: “Now we’re on a new, exhausting family plan.”
Problem is…you create something that’s barely possible, and then…
…you’re too sore to go back to the gym. You’ve got no time between finding clients to help them. You turn love into a to-do list. It doesn’t work, long term to require as a condition of success the physcial maximum every day.
The “doable better” is better than the “possible once.” It’s just hard because you don’t feel like you’re making progress when the progress is so modest.
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