When it comes to habits, there is the ideal, the actual, and the redline.
The ideal is what you write on paper when you visualise your dream daily routine.
- One hour meditation sitting twice per day
- 20 min exercise per day
- Gratitude journal entry
The actual is the difference between the dream and standard reality.
- Ten minute meditation in the morning, five in the evening
- 10 min run per day
- Scribbles in paper
The red line is a temporary fix for an unsustainably demanding reality.
- Body scan in bed while drifting into sleep
- Ten thousand walking steps
- Two word prayer
The redline is as much success as the ideal.
When context changes, so must your strategy.
Failure is zero.
Zero leads to breakdown.
Anything above zero is consistency, persistency, compounding, success.
The red line allows you to cultivate sanity in demanding times without guilt.
Until context changes back into standard reality.
Pablo Olalla Pérez
Grande Miguel,
Love it
Arvind
Dear Miguel,
I saw this post today and it really helped realise that anything is better than nothing and you are so right about context. Context is so important because it determines what choices we make in that moment. As artists we need to put the work in, but some days things come up and we have to adapt. I had one of those days today!!!
Also, THANK YOU ? for everything that you and your team have done to reach as many artists as possible and helping us to move forward in our artistic endeavour. The Fine Art Summit was nothing short of incredible.
Many thanks,
Arvind
Diane Williams
Hi Miguel,
Your writing is so Haiku. You are giving us the essence and in this giving is the underlying message to keep things simple. What is really important today?
Happy to have you as my coach…
diane