After a certain point, humans love a good off ramp from effort. I can’t stand when people start commiserating on how crazy it is that something hasn’t gone to plan.
Say you’ve got to make a giant blueberry cake for an event in order to save the lives of 10,000 puppies. Wouldn’t it be weird to sit around saying things like, “There I was at my third Trader Joes for the afternoon and you wouldn’t believe it!… NO BLUEBERRIES.”
It doesn’t matter.
Sure, the example is silly, but that’s what blogs are for… important ideas and silly examples, right? The idea that there is some amount of effort or attention to detail would guarantee that a thing is done isn’t real. That’s the thing that makes life what it is. Playing the game means to give up control. So, unfortunately, no matter how good it feels to off load responsibility, the thing you want simply takes what it takes.
It takes what it takes.
No words are truer and the moment we can all get to that point we can get real about making things happen. It will take what it takes and that’s the burden you bear when you stick your neck out there to get things done in the world.
Keep going.
1/2/26 WOD
DEUCE Athletics GPP
CLOSED DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
(NO SATURDAY CLASS on 12/27)
DEUCE Garage GPP
4-4-4-4
Deadlift Against Bands
Complete 3 rounds for quality of:
8 Heel Elevated Goblet Squats
10 Goblet Squats
8 Jumping Air Squats
Then, AMRAP 10
2, 4, 6, 8… Hang Cleans (155/105)
15 Double Unders