Once you clear the bar without trying, it’s not a standard anymore. It’s a step stool.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

A target you meet comfortably has stopped doing the job a target is for. It was useful while it pulled you upward, and now it mostly confirms what you already do, which feels good and teaches nothing. Standards are meant to sit slightly out of reach, so they need raising as soon as they become automatic.

Look at the numbers you hit every time without effort and move one of them up. Not dramatically, just enough that failing is possible again. Keep the old one as a floor rather than a goal.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which of your goals stopped asking anything of you?

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