The Chaotic Path of Improvement

by Anthony Vicino

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXWNEfPtjgs&list=PLVOspl3tsfnqFED2ENKj51FJs_o-wmacE&index=6

Have you ever rolled out of bed one morning and for whatever reason, you just kind of felt, bleh? You are not sick and there’s nothing wrong, per se, but you feel kind of drained and unmotivated. You don’t really feel like doing anything and as you sit there, observing this kind of BLEH feeling, you realize that you’ve kind of felt this way for a few weeks now. Tired, lethargic, apathetic. It is frustrating because you can think back and you’re like, man, I was crushing it last month. I was focused. I was energized. I was productive. And then, one day, you just you woke up and everything was different. You didn’t even realize it at first. But your mojo just kind of up and disappeared. If you’ve ever felt this way, don’t worry. This is completely normal. We all experience these highs and lows because that’s just how life is. Half the time you’re going to feel above average and half the time you’re going to feel below average. That’s how averages work.

The trick is to simply recognize when you’ve been spending too many days in a row falling below average. That way, you can quickly take action to reverse the trend. And if you make a habit of this, then in time, your baseline of how often you feel good starts to increase. And then, what constitutes a bad day would have qualified as a good day only a few years ago. This is what we call The Chaotic Path of Improvement. And we’re all on it.

To get out of them and get your baseline trending back up, it doesn’t require you to do anything crazy. You don’t need to take massive action. Usually, you just need to commit yourself to five small habits.