BELOW-PAR ONLY SUCCEEDS IN GOLF
Monday, July 19, 2021
Of 52 weeks each year, what percentage of those begins with freshly rested and ready to roar?
Why?
Not enough rest.
Nothing akin to personal care sustaining sanity or rational thought.
The world heaps reward on very few, while most grind through our days in functional obscuring, like so many cogs, on so many wheels hidden from view, keeping merry-go-rounds turning.
That isn’t breaking news.
Sub-optimal, while typical, will startle nobody, and nothing will go viral!
The question, of course, is not whether anyone wants to be rested and fresh; we all want that, and we talk about it without committing. Whom are we kidding?
Most of us can only boast that on ‘vacations weeks’ – because the rest of our weeks all look the same, and for most of us (until recently – me too!) and we are, at best, running in 3rd gear till mid-week, so busy finishing the incomplete, juggling, as we re-work a calendar. Bizarrely, in our work culture, we get along with this never-ending slow-motion mode because nearly everyone else is doing the same things.
Did you get a good rest?
Or a great one?
Are you fresh, slate-clean, and ready?
Rest is best.
Sleep, time to reap rest, be our best, soar another day.
Because rest means recovery, that leads to discovery – and I suspect most of us need this reminder – is that we don’t do our best when we work hardest or longest, but when we work rested and fresh.
Can you imagine a gone-viral video of ‘he had a normal healthy, calm day,’ or ‘she did her job well,’ or ‘the team wrapped everything and went home’ – can you see that getting any traction in the gone-weird social media landscape?
No, because popular culture never celebrates calm, professional, workman-like routines – because they don’t create excitement, and they lamely fall far short of our capability for excellence.
Today, a new journey/race begins.
It starts here every Monday morning, but for too many of us way too often, we’re starting our week wading through everything we didn’t finish or follow through on last week.