When I'm pressed for time, I’ll run a quick 2 miles around the road that circles my house. (4 laps = 1 mile)
Because I had to force myself to hit the road, I try to hurry & get it over with by cutting the corners instead of fully rounding them off.
At the time, it seems like I'm getting around the circle quicker, but after eight laps, mentally I’m trying to pull up, but my watch tells me to keep running...
It’s not yet 2 miles...
Come to find out, because I cut the corners, I end up having to take needless, extra steps.
An extra 100 ft doesn’t seem like much, but if I add that extra 100 ft up over the next 52 runs, I end up adding a mile’s worth of steps for the same “2 mile” run.
Sound familiar?
You’re tired...sore...frustrated...& the month’s been grueling...
Nothing seems to be going your way...
So you cut the corners...
In an effort to “save time,” you rush through customers, quickly assessing if they’re buying or not...
You take extra days off to rest from last week’s leg day at the gym...
You jump from one relationship into the next proclaiming, “this is the one...”
You “put it all on the card” or renew the loan this month and gamble on figuring out how to make the payments next month(s)...
You cut the corners...because it seems like it’s the quickest way to make your lap that day...
Hurry & get it over with seems logical...
But it’s costly...
Because this is a long race you’re running & you’re needlessly adding extra steps to achieve a decision...outcome...or goal.
Run the full mile you're in...
Today, I know you don’t feel like it...I know it’s been rough...I know the extra weight of frustration, fatigue, & anger make your run slower & harder...
But take the steps now...
All of them...
Because you’ll take fewer in the long run.
When I’m on that hard ass, “don’t feel like it” run & feel like cutting the corners...
When the voices are banging in my head- screaming that no one will know that I’m cutting the corners...
I tell myself, “Square the circle...don't circle the square.”
See, the road around my house is a circle, but the parameters are a square, so if I stay on that parameter, eight laps is two miles...
But if I circle the square & cut the corners, that same two miles ends up costing me extra steps..wasted energy & time.
Square the circle today....
When you cry to yourself, “ I don't feel like doing this-I'm just going to round this thing off!!!”
Don't, because it may feel like it’s quicker now, but remember your life isn’t a lap...it’s many, many miles...
Today’s lap may be hard...but in the end the steps will be efficiently fewer...& it’ll all be worth it.
Have an amazing day.
Stay in The Sales 💪ife.
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