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External Motivation

Posted by slung under Reflections
It’s not every day that I wake up at 6am and think, “because it’s part of my goals, I’m going to go running this morning, despite the fact that I feel like roadkill and it’s dark outside”.

That’s the sort of laudable sentiment you have at 7 in the evening after a couple of glasses of wine, when your life-goal-setting exercise involves nothing more than ink and paper.

One of the key things we deal with on a day-to-day basis when we try to make changes to our lifestyles is that the person we are in the morning isn’t the same person who went to bed last night.   Read the rest of this entry »
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Tacking

Posted by slung under Reflections
As a sailor, you need to harness the elements to drive your boat in the direction you want to go.  You don’t control the bearing of the wind, and you have to change the set of your sails and the direction of your boat to head as near as possible to the direction you want to go, at the best speed possible.  It’s a compromise that improves with your level of skill.

The wind changes direction gradually, and when finally it moves across your bow, you need to tack.  But a boat does not tack subtly.  All sails must change side, all crew members must be involved, and even the best boat will need to move a full sixty degrees through the wind.  To keep going towards the same destination, a subtle course correction will not do.

So it is with life. Read the rest of this entry »
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