How's Your Second-half Tempo?

How's Your Second-half Tempo?

Except for the 'INSTANT' ones, inn any endeavor in life, having a first-half and a second-half are givens.  And WHO would NOT agree with me that, except for those coerced to take action, almost everyone of us would feel that sort of adrenalin rush cum excitement at the start of the first-half.  UNTIL gradually our energy gets zapped, our battery goes low.  That explains WHY in almost all competitive activities [YES, even in the chess world where tournaments will have a break somewhere at the halfway mark], there's always a half-time break.  WHY?  That's we humans [and NOT machines] need a break, need to regroup, need to reboot OR reset, sort of.  Looking back your past years till to date, How's Your Second-half Tempo📗📙📘

By right and even logically, we should expect [OR demand] from our own selves that after the halftime break, we would be as fresh and as energized as if it were the start of things BUT do you realize that sometimes, even after the halftime break, the more our performance would seem to nosedive, with the trajectory going down down down south instead of going up???

Then we hear the LAW OF AVERAGES as a reason [a.k.a. EXCUSE] when one's performance dips.  For alignment, LAW OF AVERAGES is the idea that the probability of an event will determine HOW often it occurs over time.  WHILE it may seem like common sense, it is NOT a proven OR correct statistical principle at all.  According to statistical experts themselves, this is because real outcomes are random, and any given sample may NOT reflect those theoretical probabilities.  Point is, IF and WHEN our performance dips, let us NOT point fingers to the LAW OF AVERAGES because it's NOT always true, in fact❌❌❌

Classic examples of people's performance dipping OR even nose-diving on the second-half are the NBA games where a dominant team piles up points during the first half and then the underdog team mounts a rally and catches up within the second-half.  Again, if we fall back on the LAW OF AVERAGES, it is happening everyday to sales folks WHO are taught that IF they want to double OR triple their sales, they need to double OR triple their cold calls.  And that any deviations in the expected probability will average out OR even out after several iterations.  YES, sometimes this is true BUT again, it all boils down to maintaining and sustaining that momentum💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  WHILE it is much easier said than done, sustaining one's momentum and playing an 'up tempo' pace is all WHAT it takes for one to have a second-half tempo that is either as as good OR even better than the first-half.  SO HOW?  Keep focused on your goals.   KEEP focused on the positives.  KEEP celebrating progress [even little ones].  KEEP having fun and YES, KEEP HEALTHY dude!!!