Week 009: When You Start To See What 1% Better Each Day Means

When will you hit the point on the expediental curve that shoots up?

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This week started off feeling like a normal week. I continued to do my training as normal. I had typical work days and life was going business as usual.

On Tuesday, I went on my run commute to work and I noticed something.

I was running my mile pace 1 minute faster than I normally run. I was also not out of breath at all.

I realized right there that I was starting to see the rewards of being consistent. It can take a long time to see those rewards.

“Get fit quick” is the new “get rich quick” scheme. Everyone promises that they have the magic pill that can help you solve all of your fitness and health problems with a snap of the finger. Only the person selling that problem has the secret knowledge of the solution to that problem as well.

You can’t undo years of neglect in a couple days or weeks. It might take you several months or years to undo a lot of the neglect that we’ve given ourselves.

I’m fortunate that I’ve never fully neglected myself but there certainly have been years of my life where I didn’t get any better or worse.

To me, if you are staying the same, you are getting worse. We are all getting older, we are all decaying slowly, and someday we will all pass away. Time always wins and if you let yourself have more years go by without getting better, you’re wasting the potential of what could have been.

What’s something in your life that you wish you would have done? What’s stopping you right now?

The Scariest Part of Consistency

If you’ve been inconsistent for years, being consistent is subconsciously frightening. Why is that?

There’s a deep fear in us that if we somehow started to become consistent, we would realize how wasteful those inconsistent years were.

This is a trap of a narrative that we tell ourselves. We view ourselves as someone who struggles with consistency so we start framing consistency as being harder than it has to be.

Consistency becomes a mountain out of a molehill.

If there ever is a day when we start to climb that mountain, we fear that the mountain may not have been as bad as we thought it was. The prospects of this are frightening because we will have to come to terms with all the wasted years that we had.

However, the you that was yesterday does not have to be the you today.

Overcome it and stop wasting time.