What Are You Putting In?

"It is not the hours we put in the job, it is what we put into the hours that count."~Sidney Madwed

What are you putting into your hours? Is it 100% or less? Why?

John Wooden said that "If you give 60% today, you can't give 140% tomorrow to make up for it." There's a misconception that we can give more than 100% You can't! In fact, most people who are told that they are giving more than 100% are most likely giving 95% because you can't give more than everything you have.

Think about your average day. How much are you giving? 60%? 70%? 90%? Are you really or are you just fooling yourself. Here's an example. The 2 days before you go on vacation, you work really hard to get things done. You might even be working at 90%. Why did it take you that long to work that hard?

Challenge yourself to every day, give as much as you can. Your life will change for the better.

"It is not the hours we put in the job, it is what we put into the hours that count."

Your Intensity

"Do whatever you do intensely."~Robert Henri

Are you living full out? Are you giving 100% to everything in your life?

Why not? Why are you coasting? What is stopping you from giving 100% percent?

We have this mistaken idea that if we coast today, we can make up for it by working harder tomorrow. The problem with that is like John Wooden says, "If you give 50% today, you cannot give 150% tomorrow, because we only have 100% to give each day."

We hear constantly about how someone is giving 110%, but that's just wrong! We can't give more than 100%. They might be giving 90% after they had coasted when they were only giving 70%. Or maybe they upped their effort from 50% to 70%.

Think about how many times you had more to give and didn't. Why? Stop coasting today!

"Do whatever you do intensely."