One of the major themes in my life is to live with intentionality in 2022. In a world where we’re constantly bombarded by so much content, it makes for a distracting environment for us to find our purpose and true interests. I often find that going through a bunch of different topics — cardiac physiology, cultural relativism, and corporate leadership for example — within the span of a few hours can be really a lot to swallow, and doesn’t really allow for us to internalize anything at all.
We’ve been paralyzed by too much. Too much information.
But what if there was a better way? I’m committing to something known as
the weekly hard: doing one thing really hard every single week. Goals must be so hard that you have a 15% chance of failing (
that’s scientifically proven). But what if we could compound this over time.
Doing one hard thing a week, whether that be breaking a social media habit or building up a new nighttime routine. That’s 52 new improvements over the course of a year, and over 520 better parts of yourself over the next decade. That’s a whole lot of good changes.
Being more intentional with the pages of goals we set out for ourselves, or for the lengths of information we want to learn about and consume may be the solution for this overload our society experiences day-to-day.
Last week, my weekly hard was to run 3x. I hate running, I’ve never been a fan of marathons. But, I did it, and I’m going to continue doing it over the rest of the year.
This week, I’m going to routinely wake up at the time I set out for myself (something that I haven’t been doing for the past couple of months).
What areas of your life do you find you haven’t been improving on as much as you’d like? What’s going to be your weekly hard?
