I’ve heard our attention is more valuable now than ever.
Or, we are more distracted now than ever.
It seems to have coincided with our figuring out how to tap into each other’s dopamine system with a couple of clicks of the thumb.
As expected this shows up in exercise, training and health journeys, on all time-frames
Short term distraction within a session: any means possible to avoid presence with the exercise – louder music, social media, sending messages, podcasts. Rushed repetitions, rushed warmups, rushed mobility work.
Mid-term distraction across a week: re-shuffling priorities, deadlines, too much partying, sleeping in, setting up to miss sessions or have poor sessions.
Long-term distraction: The goal isn’t coming fast enough, so why keep going? New jobs, new countries, new priorities
It’s not that any of these things are bad (on the contrary!) it’s simply that we’ve long known multi-tasking doesn’t work. We lose intent.
When we decide to focus only on the task at hand, just for the moment, things get easier.
Your training journey is no different. Exercise/movement, whatever you want to call it, really is not too difficult when approached as a singularity.
You might be amazed at how you can go, how much you can feel and how much there is to notice in your training when there are fewer overall distractions.
