Dan Richards—also known as The One Armed Wonder—recently talked about evolving his objectives on the Wild Ones Podcast. It’s a clever way of reacting to insurmountable adversity: adapt the desired outcome and work toward that one instead of the original one.
On a scale well below anything Dan talked about, I had planned a 4+ hour bicycle ride a few weeks ago and woke up feeling quite out of it on the big day, so I split it into two parts over two days. It was rather annoying to have to do so, but it meant I did effectively the whole thing, while I likely wouldn’t have completed it if I’d stubbornly stuck to the original plan, and would’ve probably needed a longer recovery break after anyway.
None of this is exactly groundbreaking, but it is quite difficult to remember at times. I’m trying to be better about it.
At the start of this year I set some goals, as I’d done a number of times in the past. I felt like they were slightly ambitious, but not excessively so, and thus probably just about perfect. To recap, they were:
It’s now been three months since then, and a quarter of the year is behind us, and I’ve done rather little of any of that. I’ve made meaningful progress on the last point, but haven’t made a shred of it on the other four. The prevailing reason is my lack of available bandwidth, brought on by a rather challenging family health situation. This is unlikely to dramatically change in the near future, so I don’t think I’m about to discover oodles of spare time and energy, and I feel like it’s worth officially adjusting my goals as a result.
And so:
I feel good about this. Happy rest of 2024!~
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