It takes a lot of balls to write things down.
It means you can fail. It means that it’s in stone. It means you can’t change the stakes.
Even if you lie to someone else, what you wrote is still on that piece of paper, on that word processor, on that blog, and it is there forever. Even if you burn it, delete it, crash it – there is a change in your mind the moment you write it, you turn it into something, you make it into a reality.
Moving the goal posts on anything is so seductive. It doesn’t take any work, and your mind has enough processor power to change the story while you do something else. It is easy, one errant thought, one loose memory, and all of a sudden the entire memory is different, and you are the winner (maybe the loser if you subconsciously want that).
If you don’t put it somewhere, where you stand when you shoot the shot can change. It is a lot easier to let that happen, but the best improvement that I, or anyone else can make, is to hold ourselves to that spot, live with the consequences, and decide our next move.
If not, the processing power that could be deciding the pain points is constantly changing the story, and you will just find yourself at step one, perpetually.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 