Push Ups

Lately a personal focus of mine has been the quality of my push ups and sit ups. After correcting someone on their push ups, I realized mine could be better. So after this I made it a goal to make sure all my daily push ups and sit ups are of the highest quality I can achieve. Right away I noticed how it became more difficult to complete them through out the day, and a slight dip in my daily numbers. At first this frustrated me a lot, until I realized that dip in numbers isn’t something for me to be frustrated about. That dip truly showed me how I hadn’t been doing them right, and motivated me to keep working at them until my numbers are back. By increasing the quality I was improving my ability compared to the day prior, which is the important part. I’d rather complete 50 perfect pushups than 100 mediocre ones.

We should always be assessing ourselves, in order to discover new ways of improvement. Even if all your push ups are perfect and you are reaching your daily goal, why stop there? Increase your daily goal or increase the difficultly of the push ups, rather than settling for what you already can do. Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

Logan Ward