I recently went golfing the first time years. To my surprise it was actually fun and I wasn’t that bad. It was a little shaky when I first started out but I got better in the next couple rounds and slightly better as the rounds went on.
You know what stuck out to me the most was the inconsistency of my play. It seemed easy to hit a good shot or two but difficult to put a number of good shots together. Then of course I thought of health, fitness and nutrition. I thought about this healthy lifestyle I’m always talking about and how the two related.
See, it’s easy to make a healthy meal once in awhile, it’s easy to make a healthy decision while eating out, it’s even easy to make yourself workout the odd time or go for a walk. But I think we all understand it can be difficult to make healthy decision after healthy decision.
If we look at golf, if you want to be a good player you’ll need to consistently make good shot after good shot which takes practice, focus and concentration. If you want to be great your focus needs to be near unwavering.
And that’s what’s different about living a healthy lifestyle. You don’t have to be perfect all the time, you don’t have to have unending focus. However, at least at first you’ll need to put in the time and effort it takes to ‘get good it’. And the truth is, I’m not sure you’re ever really good at it, you just become consistent about it.
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Which I think is kind of cool. Think about that for a second. You don’t have to be good at grocery shopping (just follow a list), you don’t have to be good at working out or even great, you just have to do it.
And that’s where the advantage comes in when living a healthy lifestyle. First of all it gets easier the more you do it, and you don’t even have to be good at it, you just have to do it. I think there’s power in that statement especially when you compare it to something as difficult and frustrating as golf can be.
To get results in anything in life you’ll need to be consistent and persist when times get difficult, because if there’s no difficult in what you do, it’s rarely worth doing.
Drew, amazing post. I must agree with ” you don’t have to be good, you just have to do it ” There were and still are times that I don’t do something because the thought of not being good gets in the way. I have learned that if i just do it and consistently practice it I will later become great and master it.
Thanks Jas! Fear is what holds most people back. Fear we’re not good enough, fear we never will be, fear we’ll fail. If you can understand sometimes you don’t even have to be good, you usually get good and don’t even know it.