Quit While You're Ahead
Have you ever achieved a PERSONAL BEST and then relaxed a bit afterwards, nit pushing yourself? If so, WHAT are the implications of such behavior on your future performance? Let's listen around and with the best intentions, we would hear: i WANT TO BE A BETTER RUNNER. I WANT TO BE A BETTER BIKER. I WANT TO BE A BETTER STUDENT. Good enough, there are quantitative performance measures that will tell us HOW good are we at something. These quantitative ratings help us think about HOW to develop things like goals to push us to become better, to improve ourselves. BUT let us NOT get lost with this reminder that where possible, Quit While You're Ahead💴💷💵
BUT here's the 'BIG BUT'. It's really a tricky process to figure out what the right GOAL is to set for yourself. GOALS are the double-edged sword. They're double-edged in the sense that they can be motivating. If you're just short of a GOAL, you're going to put in some effort to surpass it. BUT once you surpass it, it becomes demotivating, so you tend to take your foot off the gas pedal. So that's the bind. Question is, how can we hurdle that? So what's our take? Consider CALIBRATED GOALS along the way📗📙📘
If a personal-best GOAL seems too easy, you're going to surpass it quickly. It will be RESET. If it's too difficult, well, it's never really too difficult in the sense that you've achieved it before, so it's definitely within the realm of possibility. And so, WHAT we do is we show that this operates as a GOAL in the manner that it's motivating WHEN you're just short of it and demotivating WHEN you just pass it💎💎💎
There have been many common stories when somebody is trying to reach a personal GOAL, there's that level of COMPETITION from people WHO want to succeed. So, if somebody has reached the GOAL and they take a break, do they lose that level of COMPETITION? That's the thing because by the time one reaches that level, one tends to be excited and one may NOT want to taper off, so the tendency is to STOP!@#$%?
One thing concluded by various studies is that people have surmised that maybe is the wrong thing to do considering you're at your BEST level [when you quit]. BUT this is when one should be playing, that kind of counter-intuitive attitude. What perplexes me are some of the SUCCESS STORIES who kept pursuing their personal best even after they've gotten there. Point is, much as we DON'T want to lose that competitive nature, weigh things if QUITTING WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD is an option✅✅✅
