We have two choices for how we spend the rest of 2024:
- Route A: Costa and say “I’ll start again in January.”
- Path B: Treat it as a Beta Test for 2025.
Our brain will try to convince us to choose Road A.
I want you to choose path B.
Here’s how Beta Testing works:
We have to experience our lives and find out what we want to work on in 2025.
We’re not trying to stick with the perfect workout, or trying to build a flawless running streak every day. We are not trying to be 100% adherent to the optimized diet.
- Do you want to be “someone who goes to Pilates or Yoga” but are you worried about the ongoing commitment? Great! Sign up for ONE class this week or next week. Try it! You are not committed to a lifetime. Try to see if you want to do this in 2025.
- You want to be someone who becomes really strong, why do you want toned arms or do you know that getting stronger is important? You don’t need the perfect training plan to follow. You need to work up the courage .go to the gym and pick up a weight..
- Do you want to be someone who has a better relationship with food? You don’t need to plan the next 40 days of meals. You don’t need to perfectly plan every part of your diet every day. You need to figure out who .healthy meals. don’t hate preparation.
The fun part of beta testing is that you can stop doing things without feeling bad.
You are an engineer, doing a project to see if it fits your lifestyle and your schedule. Are you interested in different disciplines, .tasting different foods from the buffet line.to see what works for you.
Your goal is to experiment and find a training strategy and diet plan that works for you that you can implement more regularly by the end of the year. That way, instead of starting from a dead stop on January 1st, you get to start with the momentum and knowledge of what really works. for you.
Sign up for a class you want to try.
Give yourself permission to try and fail a different diet.
Try a different productivity strategy.
Let go of strategies that you keep trying and failing to implement. They don’t work for you.
Try new things.
After all, 2024 is just a beta test for 2025.
What are you going to try and test this fall?
– Steve
