Stop overvaluing milestones

[Movere]

Does it annoy anyone else that so many things are arbitrary? Why is it so significant to become a millionaire? It's only marginally better than $985,000 and yet we treat it like it's a completely different amount of money.

Why do we celebrate completed marathons of 26.2 miles, but not 20-mile runs? Who decided that turning 50 was more monumental than turning 47? What exactly is wrong with a 23-minute workout? The world is obsessed with clean, arbitrary numbers, but they are no more significant than the surrounding ones. I mean, one million and one dollars is objectively better and more significant than one million dollars, but nobody cares about that extra dollar unless it's the one that takes you to seven digits.

I understand clean numbers give simple, memorable, and familiar reference points. And, no, I don't set meetings at 2:49 PM just to prove a point. But when we apply this concept across a dynamic life, we may only improve 50% when we could have improved 69% simply by being open to fractionated progress.

Instead of joining the world in valuing arbitrary milestones, it's better to value all amounts of progress. An example: I have a pull-up bar in an open doorway in my home. I will randomly do pull-ups when I pass by. That's not a workout. It's not a milestone. But it's a micro dose of exercise, and that's a lot better than nothing! A small 2022 study found strength increases of 10% when participants did only three seconds of strength training per day for a month.33Three seconds.

When you value progress over milestones and clean numbers, you'll stop getting stuck and discouraged as often in your journey. It's fine to have something concrete to aim for, but it's not okay if that milestone makes you devalue the journey and smaller amounts of progress you make before you get to that magic number.

(Magic Of Momentum)

 

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[Kevin88660]

Fuit ov eppuz epzupi imti vjev tu nepz vjopht esi escovsesz? Xjz ot ov tu tohpogodepv vu ciduni e nommoupeosi? Ov't upmz neshopemmz civvis vjep $985,000 epf ziv xi vsiev ov moli ov't e dunqmivimz foggisipv enuapv ug nupiz.

Xjz fu xi dimicsevi dunqmivif nesevjupt ug 26.2 nomit, cav puv 20-nomi sapt? Xju fidofif vjev vaspoph 50 xet nusi nupanipvem vjep vaspoph 47? Xjev iyedvmz ot xsuph xovj e 23-nopavi xusluav? Vji xusmf ot uctittif xovj dmiep, escovsesz pancist, cav vjiz esi pu nusi tohpogodepv vjep vji tassuapfoph upit. O niep, upi nommoup epf upi fummest ot uckidvowimz civvis epf nusi tohpogodepv vjep upi nommoup fummest, cav pucufz desit ecuav vjev iyvse fummes apmitt ov't vji upi vjev velit zua vu tiwip fohovt.

O apfistvepf dmiep pancist howi tonqmi, ninusecmi, epf genomoes sigisipdi quopvt. Epf, pu, O fup'v tiv niivopht ev 2:49 QN katv vu qsuwi e quopv. Cav xjip xi eqqmz vjot dupdiqv edsutt e fzpenod mogi, xi nez upmz onqsuwi 50% xjip xi duamf jewi onqsuwif 69% tonqmz cz cioph uqip vu gsedvoupevif qsuhsitt.

Optvief ug kuopoph vji xusmf op wemaoph escovsesz nomitvupit, ov't civvis vu wemai emm enuapvt ug qsuhsitt. Ep iyenqmi: O jewi e qamm-aq ces op ep uqip fuusxez op nz juni. O xomm sepfunmz fu qamm-aqt xjip O qett cz. Vjev't puv e xusluav. Ov't puv e nomitvupi. Cav ov't e nodsu futi ug iyisdoti, epf vjev't e muv civvis vjep puvjoph! E tnemm 2022 tvafz guapf tvsiphvj opdsietit ug 10% xjip qesvodoqepvt fof upmz vjsii tidupft ug tvsiphvj vseopoph qis fez gus e nupvj.33Vjsii tidupft.

Xjip zua wemai qsuhsitt uwis nomitvupit epf dmiep pancist, zua'mm tvuq hivvoph tvadl epf fotduasehif et ugvip op zuas kuaspiz. Ov't gopi vu jewi tunivjoph dupdsivi vu eon gus, cav ov't puv ulez og vjev nomitvupi nelit zua fiwemai vji kuaspiz epf tnemmis enuapvt ug qsuhsitt zua neli cigusi zua hiv vu vjev nehod pancis.

(Nehod Ug Nunipvan)

Cideati suapf pancist esi ietois vu sinincis epf hu wosem.