CLMN | Don’t do more, do better
I’ve always found it interesting to listen to people’s resolutions for the New Year. Losing weight, exercising more and picking up something new or bold like a new sport or a new hobby. Perhaps this is the year where we finally learn to paint, or a new language, or perhaps we start playing football. The emphasis is almost always towards something new, or more of something. However, in my way of thinking, our approach is rather wrong. Emphasis should not be put towards doing something more, but better.
Take the idea for example of studying more. The amount you study isn’t necessarily an indication of how well you actually do study. Studying better should be your goal. Another one I hear a lot is the determination to work out more. Again, working out more is not necessarily an indication that you are doing it correctly. Most of the time, our goals are projected towards the outside world, and centered around activities. And again, most of the time, they don’t stick. The reason for this is, to my understanding, that we don’t actually change ourselves to accommodate for these new activities.Why not try to be more disciplined when it comes to study and sport, for example, instead of just trying to do it more? Setting a goal of becoming a better person by improving one’s self, instead of one’s activities, seems to me a much more desirable goal. And sure, trying out new things is always good. Take it from the man that has a thing for running towards things he doesn’t fully understand. However, without proper motivation, that new whatever we try will stop being of interest after a couple of weeks, and will become yet another failed attempt in our flawed goal system.
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