If you are riding a bicycle at full speed and I ask you to go ‘just a little bit faster’, naturally you’d have a crack and peddle harder, right? For a while you would anyway, until you burned out.
Mind you, you could have achieved going ‘just a little bit faster’ with much more ease by getting on a motorbike, in a car or using any powered transport for that matter. That’s always the seduction – we get sucked in to thinking that the bicycle is not a variable.
We think the challenge of going a bit faster fundamentally revolves around the bicycle. We hear “the goal is to go faster; the method is a bicycle.”
Now apply that to the dream house you want to have. Or the medal you want to win. Or any goal you have.
So often we see the achievement of that goal as requiring us to peddle faster and harder for longer to achieve it. And as a result goal achievement just looks so hard. We can see it would require unsustainable effort and see burn out on the horizon. As a result our passion is extinguished before we begin. We get confused, because we know we want the goal but why aren’t we prepared to do the work?
The issue is we get attached to ‘method’, not the ‘goal’. And as a result we will let go of a goal before we will the method. Not even realizing we are doing it.
Method is the tool you use for an outcome. Things like your type of income, training style, business structure, savings plan, approach to job search and dating.
Anytime you think you need to peddle harder to achieve your goal, get off your bike and get onto a better method. The same amount of energy, applied to a better method, gets a totally different result.
Find someone going faster and say “please teach me”.