Dabbling

This past August I had the opportunity to spend a week in California learning from Alwyn and Rachel Cosgrove. Needless to say I learned a great deal of business and fitness information from them. One of the points Alwyn made a couple of times was to not dabble in things.

I think dabbling is something that many of us do. I know I have in the past. We see something new or hear about something new and want to try it or do it or whatever. Which is fine, as new ideas and challenges are always great. But, the problem arises when these new ideas cause us to get away from our main focus, whatever that may be. We are now spending time dabbling on our new idea that would be better spend focusing on our main long-term goal. Don't get me wrong some of these new ideas lead to great things that can help us achieve our long-term goals, but mostly dabbling leads to unfinished projects and misused time.

People do this with exercise all the time. They see an exercise program on TV, buy the program and get started with great enthusiasm, "This is the program that will get that 10 pounds off!", they tell themselves. They do it for a couple of weeks, then one day they see the cover of a magazine promoting J-Lo's flat stomach program. And guess what they are now on that program. And the process repeats itself and they never see any significant results.

If these people would just stick to one program and follow it for 3-4 months instead of dabbling with 5-6 different programs over that same 3-4 month period they would see better results and make progress.

Stop dabbling and start making progress!

Live Fit,

Josh