Yes, We Can Sprint In Life

We always heard, LET'S NOT SPRINT BECAUSE LIFE IS A MARATHON.  I just WON'T agree less with the fact that LIFE IS A MARATHON but I'll be the first to disagree if someone tells me that we CAN'T SPRINT?  C'mon dude.  Even in various organizations, you would hear SMALL SPRINTS in 'war rooms' either for operations and projects!!!

Let's try to be on the same page here.  So WHAT do SMALL SPRINTS really mean?  Simply put, it refers to the very popular best practices of breaking down huge or complex goals OR projects into shorter and more manageable 'time-boxed' periods a.k.a. SPRINTS to achieve material and tangible progress and keep that motivation going💧💧💧

So, the bigger question, HOW do we achieve BIG progress in small blocks of time called SPRINTS?  One expert was widely quoted like:  YOU DON'T NEED HOURS OF FREE TIME TO MAKE PROGRESS.  ALL YOU NEED IS 20 MINUTES OF FOCUSED EFFORT.  Oh YES, I vividly remember one time in the past WHEN my frenetic schedules really 'hostaged' me from dawn till sunset and in between, I had like a few blocks of 20 minutes to spare📌📌📌

So, WHAT I did, instead of waiting for that PERFECT block of time WHICH will never come, I decided to tackle one small piece of task in between those chunks of schedules.  Oh Oh, would you believe, those fragments of 20 minute-windows changed everything.  And I realized I DIDN'T need hours and hours BUT instead, all I needed was to put on the focus within the duration of those small-small windows.  And from that time on, I adopted that approach of squeezing those SMALL SPRINTS in between my frenetic schedules, and that approach really paid off💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  True, our lives are always BUSY and IF it's NOT busy, it's BUSIER and finding time to tackle meaningful work often feels like a battle against the clock.  Many productivity systems do demand hours of focus OR intricate planning WHICH can feel impractical in a whirlwind of meetings and all those distractions.  This explains WHY I embraced those 20-minute SPRINTS as I realized I could use those small 20-minute gaps in my schedule to chip away at big rocks to achieve progress.  That's WHY, let's agree, YES, WE CAN SPRINT IN LIFE😗😗😗