You’ve just started a new fitness regime! On Monday you start tracking what you’re eating and enjoy ticking off your gym sessions.
Then Friday rolls around and you’ve got a dinner with friends. You’re having a great time, and don’t want to count the number of drinks you may have. But it’s ok because you’ll make up for it at the gym on Saturday.
Over the weekend you start tracking again and you feel good because you’re preparing healthy food. And you end the week feeling good because your regime seems to be going well.
But your tracking didn’t account for Friday night. And it’s likely that one night torpedoed the gains you think you made.
We do a great job at tracking our gains, but a lousy job at acknowledging our losses.
The better we can see things as a whole, the better we will be at achieving our intended outcomes.
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