Just do it.
I told my boss that, this year, I want more focus on doing, and less focus on planning. It isn't that I think planning unuseful. Certainly not. I'm a real good planner.
I was just feeling that we spent a lot of time planning, and debating plans. Then we changed the plans. And changed them again. Often before they were fully implemented.
I can make big, complex, detailed plans. I can sit at my computer and consider lots of 'what if' situations, and then think up lots of ways to handle every 'what if.'
But if me and my boss are the only ones paying much attention to our plans ... well, I don't enjoy planning that much. Planning just for the sake of planning.
A couple of days ago I read an article about long distance running. It was talking about how the leading US and European runners were starting to compete with runners from African nations, particularly in long distance events (5,000 meters, 10,000 meters, marathons).
For the past couple of decades, American runners have been losing to African runners in most long distance events. In the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, American runners had great success in long distance running (Steve Prefontaine, Frank Shorter, Alberto Salazar, Joan Benoit Samuelson).
This great success inspired lots of interest, and lots of running, and lots more studies and recommendations and plans about how to train and run even better.
And the American runners started to get beat, regularly, by African runners.
Now, American runners seem to be getting competitive again. Mostly training and racing by running hard and fast for a long time. Not by following detailed regimens and plans.
This approach is epitomized by the Mammoth Track Club (founded in Mammoth Lakes, California, in 2001). The mission of the Mammoth Track Club is to advance the naturally aggressive 'run first, ask questions later' style of the top African runners.
Just do it.
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Posted by: Tyncoffeddy | December 01, 2011 at 01:02 AM