When my son was in elementary school I was fortunate to coach his basketball team. For our team’s identity I came up with the idea of 40-100 and created a logo and had it printed on t-shirts. You’ll find a photo of it at on-emotions.com.
The idea and the challenge was as a team we were going to play 40 minutes of every game with 100% effort.
We all know it’s impossible to give 100% for a sustained period of time. We all need breaks. We all feel lazy now and then. But there is great power in determining for a certain amount of time we will give everything we have. Not 88%. Not 93%. But 100%.
Perhaps try your own version of 40-100?
Decide that for a certain amount of time you are going to give daily, weekly, 100% towards a goal your set in your life. Your version could be 15-100. Or 55-100. Make a logo. Print a t-shirt.
In our family we still talk about that team because fortunately everyone bought into the idea and by so doing discovered one of life’s greatest joys, feeling that you held nothing back in the pursuit of a common goal.
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