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“How many times do you plan to come to the gym a week? Which days will you come?”<\/p>\n
That’s a loaded question. I can plan<\/em> to come a lot more often than I actually will come. Still, I knew the answer: “3 times a week: Monday Wednesday and Friday.”<\/p>\n It felt a bit nosy for this gym employee to be asking me such a specific question, but she seemed satisfied with my answer.<\/p>\n “That’s fine. We have to ask this question so people don’t hurt themselves by trying to be weekend warriors.”<\/p>\n People can come in to the gym only on the weekend, and try to do all the exercise for the week on one day. Except it doesn’t quite work like that.<\/p>\n When I was studying for the exam to for Project Management, they had a saying: “You can’t get a baby three months by having assigning three mothers to be pregnant.”<\/p>\n Some things take time. Sometimes you can replace time with effort, and sometimes you can’t.<\/p>\n If time is what it takes, then putting out the right amount of effort and no more is the sweet spot. That’s why I was firm in my answer: Monday Wednesday Friday.<\/p>\n That was enough for me. I wanted to but in a small amount over a long time and get the reward.<\/p>\n I’m not always so sure of my answers. I’ve often fallen into the weekend warrior fallacy. Someone I think if I just try harder<\/em> I can make up for lost time.<\/p>\n When time gets lost it doesn’t find its way again. I have to find new time. And I do get new time–every day is new.<\/p>\n I must pick what to do with each day. Because it adds up. With time, it can add up to something really amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “How many times do you plan to come to the gym a week? Which days will you come?” That’s a loaded question. I can plan to come a lot more often than I actually will come. Still, I knew … Continue reading