I have to admit I've been playing hard and fast with the word quality for the last couple of months. It's stooped down to at least showing up, which is a mark I've also missed at times. When it sucks it just sucks. This is the next phase of training. To let the suck get to your head. The question is how to sustain a quality of effort over the long run. It seems simple early on but as the months turn into years it's easy to loose sight of the goal and let complacency creep in. An answer comes to mind. It's not very sexy. The quality of my systems need to be improved. Not for when things have taken a downward turn but rather when things are going good. My challenge is that I'm highly motivated when things are hard but at some point those things get easier over time and I start to loose focus. The solution is to update the goals yet I've never really planned for it. Asked and answered I guess.
Since this is the start of the week, I'd like to try something. A weekly goal of sorts. A sort of checklist of things I'd like to get done this week. Things that are within my power to affect. Maybe summarize this by the end of the week. It's worth a shot. I was gonna write it here but I'm feeling a bit shy of sharing my silly goals publicly even though no one is going to read it. I'll write it down on my notebook and revisit putting it here for next week.
As the years have passed, I've come to realize that if you want something in life you got to go get it. Having a goal is step one, have a plan to chip away at it over the long term. The second part I'm not very good at. Yet it's something I can work towards. Ain't no one coming to rescue you. Which is okay, you've been given the tools to rescue yourself the day you were born. Use them.