Something is better than nothing

My 2023 running goals and adventure plans

I can be quite an all or nothing person. I have a tendency to convince myself that if I can’t put 150% into something, it’s not worth bothering with at all. Of course, it’s rarely practical to put that much effort into anything, if not because of a lack of motivation then due to the sheer logistics of there only being a certain number of hours in the day. I have all these grand plans but then, inevitably, I can’t commit to following a strict training plan and running 100 miles a week and also working 18 hours a day and writing a new book every month and being a non-flaky friend and home-cooking every meal and calling my Grandma three times a week and also solving world peace.

So, more often than not, I end up doing nothing.

I’m sure I can’t be alone in this? In setting such wildly unrealistic goals that of course you can’t achieve them so you just give up and then before you know it months and weeks and years have passed with zero progress made towards whatever it was you wanted to do? …