I love what you’ve been writing and I find your examples excellent!

I’ve especially enjoyed the last few posts because you talk about the reality of achieving long term goals and you have pointed out how long it realistically takes to become an expert in any endeavour. It’s actually encouraging to know that it doesn’t happen overnight for anyone.

I applaud your honesty and willingness to share!

Cheers! I hope you’re having fun!

Definitely not about lowering your expectations. Simply being prepared for the worst. You can buy fire insurance for a house and not expect there to ever be a fire. You can plan your life to be sustainable ten years of extra effort, even if you believe your goals will only take 3 years to reach.

My suggestions isn’t low effort, but exactly what I worded–sustainable effort.

David,

The point isn’t to stick to the same strategy blindly even when it doesn’t work. The point is to be able to stick to the same strategy, if results are slower than expected. I frequently change my strategy when I hit plateaus, but I keep working through them.

Victor,

I’m sorry if the examples are becoming tired, but the choice is deliberate.

Although this blog isn’t a personal diary, it’s important to me that the ideas I’m expressing, people know I actually use and apply within my own life. I’d rather overuse personal examples of how an idea fits with my life, rather than take clichéd hypotheticals that I have zero experience with.

However, I’ll try to dig deeper into other past goals to add some variety.

-Scott

How long SHOULD I continue this eating pattern if I don’t see any change in my weight or body composition? While sustained effort is important and you can’t expect to see noteworthy results in a day, a week, or maybe even a month, there comes a time when it’s necessary to admit that results are not forthcoming and a new strategy is necessary — no matter how low your burn rate.

I have been reading your blog on and off have always liked it. But lately what i found is something you should really think upon !!!

Is it not an high time that you stop talking about examples which boils down to only three scenarios:

1. Simulating with running a blog website
2. Your exercise or work out plans
3. Learning French

I am sure you can post much better examples, looking at the overall depth, wisdom of anything that you write.

The intention of above comment, is just to see a little more creative things, hope you would not mind the observation.

Keep blogging, all the best

Well written. What do you think about celebrating victories or achievments also to refuel the motivation even if the burn rate remains the same?

However in learning a new hobby or activity, are you saying the burn rate is your effort? Further, are you saying moderate you effort and this will therefore lead to higher chances of success.

Cleaver analogy I guess, I just want to understand missing piece.

Or are you saying basically – lower your expectations of what you can achieve?