Jeff is bad at basketball.
Everyone knows that.
Today Jeff scored from the halfway line but the crowd dismissed it as a fluke.
In the next game scored 40 points (50% of the team’s total) but the audience chalked it down to poor opposition.
‘Lets see Jeff do that against the Devils’ they said
Then, in the very next game, against the Devils, Jeff scored 60 points.
The onlookers started to get restless, did they have to update their opinions about Jeff?
In a similar fashion consistently showing up slowly but surely removes the resistance’s (Steven Pressfield’s definition) excuses for your success.
If you can overcome your fears when you’re tired, sick or hungover then you are elevating your rank from amateur to professional.
By the same token, if you declare that you can’t do it without coffee then you’ve decided your kryptonite and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lil self sabotage occurred so that you are in short supply of coffee on a regular basis.
Anyone can do it when they’re well fed, motivated and full of energy.
It’s the days that you don’t feel 100% that are crucial.
Thomas Duggan 