Smaller Chunks

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Break your goal into smaller chunks.
Make them measurable.
And doable.

Having the goal of running a marathon is wonderful, but if you’re not reaching your weekly marks, you’re not only not making the necessary progress, you’re increasing the likelihood you won’t reach the prize.

8 total miles running by week two is a smaller chunk. It’s measurable. And it’s worth celebrating.

There are even smaller chunks. Marathon training is broken into weekly goals, but weekly goals can easily be broken into smaller, daily chunks. 2 miles/day for the first week is a good start.

What about hourly chunks?

Perhaps your marathon goal, having worked backwards from 26 miles on race day, begins with the small commitment to putting your shoes by the front door at 8:00am so they greet you when you come home from work at 5:00pm.

It’s simple.
Symbolic.
And powerful.

That’s the smallest of chunks. But it’s as critical to success on race day as is any other training component.

Breaking our goals into small, daily, even hourly chunks, is how we make large-scale change.

Do you have a huge goal? It might begin with putting shoes by the front door.