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Bright Ideas # 82 - An Easy Way to Find Your Target Market

When I do my cardio exercises, I use a heart rate monitor to make sure I reach and stay within a specific target range for the duration of my workout. Knowing exactly where I am at any given moment helps me get the best results for the time and effort I'm investing.

When I first begin my swim, or my run, it takes several minutes to get my heart rate up to the lower end of the target zone. I really have to push myself, and it seems to take forever for the number I'm looking for to appear in the little window on my wristband. Then, for those first few minutes that I'm in the "zone", it's a real struggle to maintain my effort and consistency so that my rate doesn't drop back down.

Gradually, about a third of the way in, things begin to shift. My strokes or strides even out and lengthen, and I'm surprised when I check my heart rate to see that I'm at the higher end of my range. It feels like I'm getting better results with less struggle. I fluctuate between the feelings of pushing harder and gliding smoothly. The workout that felt like it was going to be an endless struggle turns into a satisfying experience.

So it goes with many other tasks. In a new project, the research, preparation, and ramping up activities often proceed at an agonizing snail's pace. There are false starts, deviations in focus, and suspensions to fine tune until things finally begin to come together. It feels like forever until we get to the juicy part. And, when it comes to recurring tasks, especially those that are boring or distasteful, the effort to begin feels like dragging ourselves through a vat of molasses.

Once we finally DO get started, though, the energy picks up.

Each time, it's a bit easier to begin, and we reach cruising altitude a little sooner. It's a simple reminder of a deep life lesson -- action begets results. Within the struggle, we are still moving forward. Even if we don't yet feel it, the momentum is there. Sooner rather than later, as we continue our efforts, it WILL kick in. The key is to remain in motion.

Where do you have difficulty getting started or maintaining activity? What's one thing you could do to keep yourself in action until you get to your "target zone"?

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
-- Sophocles

The more you do, the more you are.
-- Angie Papadakis

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
-- Jimmy Carter

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
-- Claude Pepper

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
-- Victor Frankl

If you're going through hell, keep going.
-- Winston Churchill

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Many of the core principles regularly discussed in 'Thoughts For A Thursday' are based on or influenced by the human development methodology called Analytical Trilogy, developed by Brazilian psychoanalyst Dr.
Norberto Keppe. For more information about this cutting edge approach to living a more balanced and conscious life, visit http://www.analyticaltrilogy.org

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