The InnerFightway

Perfect Never Shows Up

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99%-100% of generic fitness plans rely on everything going right. Enough time. Enough energy. The right headspace. A calm week. It’s a logical assumption that has to exist, but it’s rarely a true one. Is life really like that? Are we learning from past experiences?

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Many people talk about poor planning. The actual problem isn’t poor planning. It’s planning for a version of life that doesn’t exist. Things out of our locus of control come to the party. Traffic jams, meetings at 9:30am that were not in our agendas at 9am. A sick kid. A sick us. The list goes on.

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We get derailed by these things, small things. Progress pauses, motivation fades. Not because we lack discipline, but because the plan itself can’t survive the disruption.

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What if we expect friction and are open to the disruption and unpredictability of life, prepared for not everything to be perfect? Excited that we may have to bend and flex a bit and still come out on top?

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If your approach only works when life is smooth, it’s fragile, it will break for sure. If it works when things are messy, it’s useful and will deliver. We always don’t need ideal conditions. We need something steady enough to keep going when they never arrive and the mindset to cope.

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No Weakness.

Marcus