Timekeeping: Tell Me Why I Don't Like Mondays
Bob Geldof is hardly alone in being less than enthused about the start of the week, and the mystery as to why we don't like it has been equally universal.
We can point to psychological factors that might make it less appealing, than a Friday certainly, but there's a corresponding physicality to it that has, seemingly, made less sense. An off-ness to it that makes catching your tram on Monday morning feel more like you’re struggling to make your connection through Frankfurt.
Baby steps: Bringing the abstract of a distant goal into everyday reality.
Behaviour goals are the means to the end, an action, over which you have direct control every day - things you can choose to do. Or not. This step further imposes a degree of honesty likely missing from an ‘aim for the stars’ fantasy. If reality was absent from the goal-setting process, here is where it makes it's boringly necessary appearance.
Aesthetic vs Athletic: Form will always follows function, but not vice versa.
In just the same way that different training methodologies will help or hinder us in achieving a particular goal, so will our point of focus.
The Old School: Lessons from Antiquity
Valued in education, politics, law, music; all the cornerstones of the societal bigger picture, but equally so all the way down to the minutiae of the individual life, well-lived. Patience, persistence, honesty, determination, grit, responsibility. Physical fitness is evidence of all these things if for no other reason than the fact that there are no shortcuts. Reward is matched by effort, awareness and intent.