Today morning, my daughter came to me with a book of fables…one
among the 5 stories that I retold was “The
Hare and the Tortoise” …It ended with the Moral : “Slow and Steady wins the
Race”. It has stuck to my mind for the reason below:
The story reminded me of Jame
Clear's concept of "Average
Speed". James’s advice is to
know our average speed of any activity that we need to pursue , irrespective of
how fast or how slow we may be.
Once we know our average speed , we need to do
pursue it consistently with a constancy of purpose. It sound simple and
straightforward … but please think if we really follow it in our daily life ?
Not really…
In this modern world , We are all creatures of Urge….
·
We remember we missed the daily work-out for
sometime now and so today we went all out at our “peak speed” only to end up
with a sprain…
·
We remember that the savings proof submission
for getting the Tax break is coming up next week and simply invest lump sum
without enough research only to find later that it is a dud one…
·
We reach out to our friends, relationships and
colleagues only when there is a need in it for us…
We all strive to be at our peak-speed (like the Hare) thinking
that it would help reach our goals sooner…but the peak speed is not sustainable
day-after-day. And with the breaks that the Peak speed requires us to take , Average speed (like the Tortoise) turns out
to be a better proposition….
Let us all Creatures of Habits …instead of
Creature of Urge….Habits that will help us build :
-Physical wealth , through physical exercise day-after-day
even it is for just 20 minutes per day
-Finance , in a systematic way month after month on
investment propositions that makes sense
-Relationships, by making a deliberate effort to talk to a
long lost acquaintance , week after week…
The elegance of Average speed lies in its simplicity…the same
simplicity that you will see in the compounding effect…In this modern world,
where busyness turns out be essentially another form of laziness, let us be
like the Tortoise…
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