When was the last time you successfully completely overhauled your diet?
What about your training?
I hear all the time about how people are going to do it… But not very often do I hear success stories.
On the other hand I hear all the time about the impact of a small change or series of small changes making significant impact on a person’s life or performance.
Like the people who just change from drinking coke to coke zero and lose 20kg over the next few months.
Or in lifting where somebody changes one thing in their technique or introduces an assistance lift and skyrockets their progress.
It’s in our nature to want to tear down the walls and start from scratch on this new idea we have…
But it’s also in our nature as people to not deal with big changes well.
A few months ago I reached out to a friend through strongman when I couldn’t get the technique right trying to lift atlas stones.
I was frustrated, annoyed and ready to give up. Feeling I needed a complete overhaul I awaited the message…
Instead I got one cue…
‘Pull the stone in close to your body’
I went back and practiced the next day and it clicked
Finally I was getting it…
And although there’s still plenty to improve upon.
Changing one thing was enough to make a significant change that fixed more than one problem.
It reminds me of the story of the mechanic who comes to fix a man’s broken car…
He inspects the engine and asks for a hammer.
The mechanic then hits the engine a few times and the car starts perfectly once again.
The man thinks beautiful this will be a cheap fix.
Upon receiving his invoice for $1000 he blows up, after all the mechanic simply hit the engine once with a hammer.
The mechanic understandably sends a detailed invoice stating the following:
- Hitting the engine with hammer – $1
- Knowing where to hit the hammer – $999
The moral of the story is changing a tonne of things to force a result can work…
But what if you could simply change the one right thing and get the same result with less effort?
Wouldn’t that be easier and more sustainable for you?