What Would You Do With 5 Minutes Every Hour?

“Everest For Everyman”: 5 reps

So I’m working up to five sets of 22 reps, piggy-backed on my “Five Minute Miracle” sessions. This allows me to prompt my body to make physiological shifts, my mind to make mental shifts. “Five” is a real threshold, because it is noticeable that adding another rep is only a 20% increase in volume. Soon it will be only a 10% increase.

Every set, I need to be thinking HOW DO I MAKE THIS EASIER? That is part “Who am I?” (how do I use my body and mind) and “What is True?” (is there an easier way to do this motion? Am I wasting energy with tension? Can I gain energy through matching my breathing to the motion more precisely?)

Every day, seek to learn 1% more about this movement pattern. If I do that, I am training myself to look for a 1% improvement in EVERYTHING, every day.

That’s 37X per year. Nobody needs to get better any faster than THAT. Its an astounding pace of growth.

But it demands that I ask the right questions.

1. With Jason. How can I improve my communication with him by 1% today? With Tananarive? And does the proper family balance now suggest that Tananarive become more primary? Wouldn’t that be a healthy part of his maturation process?
2. With my writing. What can I learn about how Shakespeare wrote, or handled his business? Can I get 1% better at balancing theme and counter-theme? Winding together A, B, and C stories to amplify each other? What…