Dave Evans

So if somewhere along the way, why I care about this, the substance of it, the relationship of it, the culture creation of it, whatever, you know, if I lost that, then when I get there, I literally won't even know what the heck I'm doing here.

Yeah.

I think sometimes we have so committed...

to that achievement that we put all of ourselves into that performance and we lose the why.

It's understandable, but it's heartbreaking.

But they put you back into another one.

So let's say I'm talking about physical work at PRs, you know, and wanting to add five reps at this bench press weight, whatever it might be.

So the time I'm spending optimizing my personal training plan with my trainer, right, that's thinking about the future and optimizing what the plan is going to be, that in and of itself is a skill.

That's an activity.

Oh, I'm doing this thing called imagining the future and conceptualizing, you know, while I'm actually doing that.

We all have the observer.

Right?

There's Dave sitting here talking to Chris, and then there's Dave noticing what's going on in the room.

What's the observer observing?

Is the observer observing me in this moment, or is the observer observing the likelihood of this getting to the outcome?

So while I'm planning, I'm doing something.

Planning is an activity.

Am I enjoying the planning?

while I'm making the sacrificial effort to say, no, I'm going to actually get up a half hour earlier, you know, because I'm going to go into the gym for 20 more minutes because I'm going to work on these reps.

When I'm on the bench and I'm now doing the second of more reps than I've ever done on that particular exercise before, am I enjoying the experience of what my body is showing me that I've not known before?