I remember having traveled the Escalator Down in Macy’s at Cape Cod Mall.
My mom, calmly goes up to the escalator like an ordinary human, would say that I was going to injure myself (possible) or I made a scene (correct) or interrupt the people who were trying to descend the climbing (also correct).
Sometimes I could go to the top, exhausted and out of breath, while my mother arrived at the same time laughing at the way I had to work hard.
Spend enough time at an airport (or travel with young children), and in a few minutes, you will see children trying to run on a mover of people moving in the other direction. The exhaustion for them, the entertainment for us.
Where do you see with that?
My friend Mark Manson put the following His newsletter This week:
“All the grain, perseverance and motivation in the world will not do you good if you work on the bad thing. In fact, it will do the opposite. »»
Which brings me to today’s question …
Where do you go up the Escalator Down?
Earlier this year, I remember having a conversation with coach Matt of the NF team coaching who succeed and who fight.
- Those who find success: They identify the escalator moving in the right direction and work hard to get on it. Each step actually amplifies their efforts.
- Those who fight: They continue to spend their energy, their will and their efforts on changes that do not move the needle.
I bet that you had times when you wondered if all the efforts were worth it, or why progress seemed more difficult than normal.
Here are some examples to try to set up the lower escalator:
- Spend a lot of money on expensive supplements (not prescribed by a health professional).
- Go to organic, gluten -free or carbohydrate keto snow uniquely On the latest trend.
- Try complex diets that do not In fact Reduce the amount of food you eat.
- Do the exercise you hate exclusively For weight loss reasons.
Run (and all that is considered cardio) is great For the health of the heart and lung. But running and cardio is much less effective for weight loss that we think (unless we also adjust our nutrition strategy).
I guess you want to look more “tonic”, which means you don’t just want to “lose weight”, but rather keep the muscle you have and lose the fat over.
If these are our goals, we focus on the right escalator is essential.
Here are examples of walking in the Escalator Up:
Show me someone who mainly eats proteins, fruits and vegetables and strength trains (with progressive overload) for 30 minutes a week, and I will show you someone who goes up the right escalator.
Here is the thing: Humans are not wired to love exercise. We are not designed to thrive in a world in which delicious calories rich in calorie foods are always available.
Which means that if we want to spend precious brain power and energy to make something, We could as well choose the right things to deceive ourselves.
Yes, there is also a component of change “Life vs Behavior” to that (which I covered in a previous newsletter Manager vs significant). But to decide “how fast I want to implement these significant steps” is a better question to ask than “why I do not progress despite Work so hard?
Get out of the bad escalator and get on the right one.
You might as well put this effort wisely!
-Teve
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