Quit Criticizing Your PRs
Quit criticizing, overanalyzing and diminishing your PRs!
Your PR wasn’t executed perfectly?? OK…
It was just a “small PR”? Also known as a PR.
PRs are the most enjoyable part of this soul-crushing sport—don’t turn them into one more reason to be disappointed.
Being proud of your accomplishments doesn’t mean you can’t want more.
Ambition doesn’t require that you be unhappy with every single thing you do until achieving that ONE ultimate goal you’re convinced will finally make you satisfied.
In fact, the best way to never reach that ultimate goal is to burn yourself out along the way with your self-imposed misery.
Recognizing and appreciating all the intermediate steps along the way to your biggest goals is what keeps you engaged, encouraged and enthusiastic.
Celebrate the success along the way. Then note objectively what you can do better next time, and use that to take positive action going forward instead of moping around like some kind of tragic, hopeless failure in spite of the measurable progress you’re making.
A lot of you have been convinced that pursuing success demands misery along the way because it seems romantic and glamorous to be the tragic, suffering protagonist in the epic tale of your road to the top.
But what this turns into most often is a life of misery without the redemption at the end you believed it was all leading to.
I’m not saying you won’t reach your biggest goals.
I’m saying that making the process a more positive one makes it more likely that you will.
And that such an approach means your happiness isn’t dependent on a single, long term goal that you may not achieve, meaning you can enjoy the entire process and find a sense of accomplishment and gratification no matter where your path actually ends.
But this is all just a suggestion.
Your PR wasn’t executed perfectly?? OK…
It was just a “small PR”? Also known as a PR.
PRs are the most enjoyable part of this soul-crushing sport—don’t turn them into one more reason to be disappointed.
Being proud of your accomplishments doesn’t mean you can’t want more.
Ambition doesn’t require that you be unhappy with every single thing you do until achieving that ONE ultimate goal you’re convinced will finally make you satisfied.
In fact, the best way to never reach that ultimate goal is to burn yourself out along the way with your self-imposed misery.
Recognizing and appreciating all the intermediate steps along the way to your biggest goals is what keeps you engaged, encouraged and enthusiastic.
Celebrate the success along the way. Then note objectively what you can do better next time, and use that to take positive action going forward instead of moping around like some kind of tragic, hopeless failure in spite of the measurable progress you’re making.
A lot of you have been convinced that pursuing success demands misery along the way because it seems romantic and glamorous to be the tragic, suffering protagonist in the epic tale of your road to the top.
But what this turns into most often is a life of misery without the redemption at the end you believed it was all leading to.
I’m not saying you won’t reach your biggest goals.
I’m saying that making the process a more positive one makes it more likely that you will.
And that such an approach means your happiness isn’t dependent on a single, long term goal that you may not achieve, meaning you can enjoy the entire process and find a sense of accomplishment and gratification no matter where your path actually ends.
But this is all just a suggestion.
