Gains Without Pains
Lockstep blueprints open the present and audition the future.
This is an encore presentation from
Lockstep Mindset Single #01: Homemade Happiness.
Please enjoy this mindset trip.
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In a case study, an old-school follower who happily runs one-mile regifts the present into a fantasy of breaking the tape on five miles within a year. The heavy head now races against the clock to make fake news real. Conversely, a next-gen racer welcomes the happy place of running one mile as a brand habit. When the runner is ready to progress, the content creator pays itself forward by running 1.1 miles, then on the next friend-finding mission, 1.2 miles, and the like.
Daydreamers train today so their future version can run the race they imagine. Allegedly, alpha plane hardships & sacrifice feed a beta version of themselves that will eventually, perhaps, maybe capture the omega gold of running 5 miles.
Bubble blowers chasing hot air
1st Workout: Try to run 1.2 miles
2nd Workout: Try to run 1.6 miles
3rd Workout: Try to run 2 miles
4th Workout: Try to run 3 miles
5th Workout: Pulled Hamstring
6th Workout: Excused Absence
Old-school runners take little joy from doing what they know they can, the average, the status quo. Sadly, the first ability is self-fulfilling availability. When thought bubbles deflate, pay-per-viewers go rogue. Regifted reality breeds alien mindsets because living for the weekend alienates humankind from committing to, investing in, and enjoying the here and now.
In a remix,
Houses are shadows of homes yet to be.
Occupations are preoccupations
as they command participation
but are not the dreams we seek.
Social circles and loved ones are . . .
Pretenders begin with the end in mind. Make-believe trends control, dominate, and decide present and future happiness. Sadly, old-school loyalties to yellow brick roads (the process) make real-time adjustments unpopular. Next-generation goal setting features the happy place (brand) of running 1 mile as a habit post. When the time is ripe, prototypes exercise and audition supportive friends to build a wheelhouse of sweet spots. The wheelhouse guarantees happiness by placing safeguards, safety zones, and margins for error between the brand habit and any points of disappointment.
1st Workout (Habit Post): Run 1 mile
2nd Workout (Friend Post): Run 1.1 miles
3rd Workout (Habit Post): Run 1 mile
4th Workout (Friend Post): Run 1.2 miles
5th Workout (Habit Post): Run 1 mile
6th Workout (Friend Post): Run 1.3 miles
(Special Note: next-gen prototypes
always return to the comfort, safety,
and familiarity of the brand habit.
Spoilsports contend the trend’s end will find prototypes eating crow and tasting failure. On the contrary, the standard lockstep blueprint commits users to exercise only twelve posts. In the above wheelhouse blueprint, speedy would run 6 one-mile habits and supportive friends of 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 miles. Remember, the next generation doesn’t cheat on habits with their friends. Before repeating blueprints, prototypes evaluate whether successful friends can safeguard the lockstep of brand habits. Conversely, a yen mindset bends ken to bully, manipulate, or hostage current events into working for the good of a future version of the user. Attaboys and girls are dispensed based on how well-trained the human appears. (Winking at you Atomic Habits.)
Standard Wheelhouse Blueprint
1st Workout (Habit Post): Run 1 mile
2nd Workout (Friend Post): Run 1.1 miles
3rd Workout: Habit 1 mile
4th Workout: Friend 1.2 miles
5th Workout: Habit 1 mile
6th Workout: Friend 1.3 miles
7th Workout: Habit 1 mile
8th Workout: Friend 1.4 miles
9th Workout: Habit 1 mile
10th Workout: Friend 1.45 miles
11th Workout: Habit 1 mile
12th Workout: Friend 1.5 miles.
Personal brands are exercised 100% of the time. In a remix, prototypes tap or pass habit posts during every workout.
Bad friends don’t stir emotions. Failed auditions define the size of the habit’s wheelhouse. In the above case, runners that miss the 12th workout of 1.6 miles have a friendly wheelhouse of 1 mile to 1.5 miles. To be precise, the house measures .1 to 1.5 because prototypes own what came before. This buffer zone gives the brand habit breathing room and a familiar playground in which to exercise and grow.
The wheelhouse is
where your friends live.
The curious must investigate other works in the Defined 4 the 99 series. This soapbox is reserved to demo that you can audition the future without the mental masturbation of trying to father it.
Prototypes build physical, social, and business blueprints using the trifecta of rehab, habit, and friend posts. Personal brands turnkey via a series of rehab/habit posts. Once the brand becomes a habit, friend-finding missions take it for test drives. The organic floor under turnkey brands ensures a solid foundation. Conversely, without as much as a toehold, slippery thought bubbles are hard to steer. Stress cracks appear when overloaded headquarters buckles under the weight of self-inflicted hardships.
Training to increase pain thresholds
to unlock imaginary upsides might
work for the 1 percent, but
doesn’t define happiness
4 the 99.
Spoilsports argue that tagging 1-mile highlights – instead of regifting the 1 into 5 – cheats the process and games the system because the brand already turnkeys, is available for immediate use. When faced with such talk, content creators smile and walk away.
Encore presentation
The Law of Unattractive Habits
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
The 99 don’t have to attract the
happy places they habit.
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