MNCT 668 - The Art of Sprinting vs The Average Day

[purvesk]

Can these two ideas work together??

The Art of Sprinting is to focus your attention for a defined period to complete a specific task, then kick back.

The Average Day was less extreme, it was more 'slow and steady' keep plugging away but don't knock yourself out.

Do these apply to different situations? or to different states of mind? I like both approaches but don't see how to do both at the same time.....

[Lennydw67]

Yeah sure they can

Sprinting for me is about doing a kind of circuit training version of overcoming intertia not necessarily related to whether you evaluate the day as being good, bad, average etc

Having an average days for me is about expectation that all days should be awesome.........for something to be awesome there is need to be an average.......most of us have ok days alot........if I have grown up expecting that all my days should be awesome how am going to evaluate (conciously or unconsciously) my days or my life or myself for that matter when I just have a ok day?

I don't think average days having anything to do with them being slow or plugging etc it's about setting yours expectation way too high........that anything short of a perfect day falls short.


To put it another way

In the customer service world they have something called under promise over deliver.......for example for a delivery you might tell a customer it's going to be there 5 days knowing that it actually only takes two but in a small number of cases it can take 5.......the outcome is that the customers expectations have been exceeded and at worst met....

So imagine how you unconciously evaluate it when you over promise that you should be having awesome days every day? it's a big ask that you'll mostly fall short of.



Cheers

Lenny