Week 5: Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’

August 11th, 2007 Z Man

The tactical aspect of achieving my points continues to get easier as I maintain awareness to opportunities where my own mind attempts to sabotage me for the goals I have decided on. I achieved 75 out of 79 points (95%) this week. Two points were missed due not overcoming the inertia of my mind which told me I was too tired at the time I had time blocked these activities, and two were missed by having a scheduled business dinner that did not allow me to make my family points one evening. I have learned that my game is rigorous for me, as it should be, and if I miss the opportunity to execute when I have an item time blocked during the day, it is an opportunity forever lost.

This week I began focusing on getting more out of each achieved point by improving my directed attention in a few key ways:

1. Being more conscious of trying to be the silent observer routinely throughout the day, particularly whenever I feel energy robbing tensions or pressures
2. By maintaining single-mindedness during activities that I have historically multi-tasked
3. Recognizing opportunities to see through conflict to preserve my energy for critical tasks vs. wasting it away in reaction

I have a long way to go, but am excited to have begun doubling my efforts in this area. A quick review of last week:

Good: Scheduling weekly actions earlier in the week to prevent end of week cleanup. Began chunking down and executing on one of the biggest “environment” projects I have slated to clean up in my game. Will be eating this frog during month two.

Opportunity: Want to raise the intensity of my efforts around my diet and intensity of my workouts. Additionally, I need to find additional opportunities to practice or play golf as I feel I am behind schedule for my goal in each of these areas.

There is no change in my larger focus of continue to expand my understanding of the concepts of energy conservation, awareness and self-importance. The external results of the Game are door prizes compared to improving the richness of my Inner Game.

In my partnership, Mike also had a very strong week in his first full week engaged in the game. My goal for this week is to motivate him in every way I can think of to achieve the one pattern miss that occurred throughout the week, which was getting to the gym to workout. I will disrupt that pattern!

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