Aggressive with Process, Average with Execution
When I returned to this topic, seemed somewhat misleading.
Let it not, especially if you read the word average. Average has been mis-interpreted long enough to lead us to think that outcomes from average inputs lead us to nowhere.
A good time to refer to an article here: take me there. This one relates to putting across a point of mechanics (often referred to as average to mean) in this world we live in- its made to tone down, test patience, offer resistance, doubt ourselves, whenever we set out in the quest to achieve beyond what’s considered the usual.
Remember when we are put down by / let down by external conditions or life situations, we try to reignite that spark of purpose by mustering enough motivation through day dreaming way beyond what’s possible in a 24 hour day, 7 days a week. By design we seek to put ourselves in a lo..oot of undue pressure, always trying to wipe out any satisfaction or happiness in the moment- and rather keeping that for some other day/time. This is a trap, a never ending cycle of coming to an arrangement with self that ties happiness to a future day / outcome- one that’s never designed through process cognizance rather hasty commitments to self.
This is repetitive. On one extreme we might have problems with procrastinations, and on other, its about over thinking, over committing to ourselves in hope of making up for lost time & garner momentum, often involves over criticising ourselves, and over demanding list of outcomes, those that rarely get to see the day light, due to only certain things that we know: our limited time on earth, and limited control over situations.
Okay, that’s a lot of overs we have highlighted 😲
Just to help us visualize, say we have a weighing scale that represents our state of balance. On the left we have procrastination, and right we have all the listed Over commitments to ourselves. No two ends are good to have, those are self-sustaining disasters in the making 🤪 since eventually that will lead us to nowhere in terms of a purposeful reconciliation of what we had set out initially, and what can be achieved.
Hope, we can now relate why it goes like this: Average with Execution. We need not spend too much time day dreaming, mustering fierce efforts, forecasting happiness, when we can have all of it now- since now is the only real frame of time we can live at any moment. Why not embed all of it into a process!
And when in pursuit of anything, every now that we exhaust represents a journey, a never ending one, and when we look back there will be few moments that will mark celebrations of milestones.
and milestones are nothing but outcomes of events when the compounding contribution of processes exceed certain threshold, one that is enough to attract attention (what is often thrown at us as success- though its a meaningless word if only looked at in isolation).
Now, and hence can we relate to why- Aggressive with Process? That should be handled with utmost care, happiness, and excitement. It should be extremely simple to follow, friendly by design, and self sustainable.
A process- that’s ultra simple to follow. Few handful of things that needs to be taken care to support our intent. Process can be looked at as a supporting framework or well defined containers with an ability to support, craft and materialise our longer term intents. Containers need not be too loud, complex, or too many, but it certainly helps to clearly outline dimensions such as- when, where, how long. We should neither squeeze in more into a container, nor allow it to spread out, since there will always be these adjacent containers where we will be required to allocate attention and respect worldly associations.
We can look forward to simplify by just focusing on what is the one thing that if taken care, ensures that we are always in sync and supportive of the design. As for example, if the design includes time blocks for an appointment with self early in the morning- the one thing that we have to conform to, is going to bed early.
Friendly by design- the design should be inherently driven by confidence. Confidence in what we can do, guided by a lot of self belief and probabilistic approach- we just need to make it extremely predictable, and ensure repetitions. This is the part where execution finds its place, and we can be conservative. But remember the tenets of our framework that supports them, should be aggressively rational, predictable, supportive, and friendly. We should remove all or any kind of self doubt, in fact try and embed fun elements, celebrate often. Why celebrate? since we are extremely possessive, caring, and aggressive with our process- so it merits to treat ourselves often.
Self sustainable: Once we processify and continue those simple steps over and over, for very long period of time- we might be surprised to see how well we are able to conform. Soon, when we start evaluating this process, we might note that it has evolved over time and has now become a part of our identity- to the extent that other auxiliary containers also might start adapting to, merge or dissolve to make more space for.
If things aren’t clear, and I should do a better job, then please let me know. Welll… there’s always room to improve. I think the topic header is simpler compared to what has been elaborated here 😆 .. But Thanks for reading my friend 🙏.. have a great day ahead!
