Like many people I have decided to take a look at the amount of exercise I was or wasn’t doing and have joined a gym. So far, in the last eight days I have been four times and I have to say I am really enjoying it. After reconnecting with my faster heartbeat I go for a swim. As I have been going at the same time every morning, (6.30am) the same people tend to be there and it didn’t take long to work out the routines they have for their morning exercise.
Swimming, for me, means going up and down the divided lanes, (slow, medium or fast) until I have had enough or hit the target I set for myself. Then it’s treat time and I go to the Jacuzzi to gather my thoughts and get ready for the day ahead. I love this moment, it’s relaxing and anyone ‘people watching’ me would notice that I am smiling.
This morning I was at the end of my own ‘routine’ and I found myself mesmerised by two groups of three women who were in the ‘slow’ lane who were ‘bobbing’ up and down the lane while chatting as though they were in a coffee shop having a good old catch up. In the ‘medium’ lane was a guy of about sixty happily swimming up and down doing about 25 lengths and in the ‘fast’ lane were two people with goggles on hitting the water as though their lives depended on them reaching their target number of lengths. This got me thinking, this scenario is a bit like what I see with some of the business owners I meet and work with. There are those who are happy just plodding, (or bobbing) along, oblivious to anything going on around them or of anyone else. Then there are those who put in a bit more effort and gain a bit more in return and finally there are those who really go for what they want and work hard to get it.
Would the people in the ‘slow’ lane ever be likely to move in to the ‘medium’ lane? I did see it happen but that was only because no one was swimming in it so they took that over to and reduced it to their ‘bobbing’ pace. I tend to start in the ‘medium’ lane as far as business is concerned, it’s the plotting and planning phase then when needed I up my game and move in to the ‘fast’ lane. I don’t stay there too long, just long enough to smash through my targets and head back to the Jacuzzi to ‘celebrate’.
Which lane do you sit most comfortably in? What would it be like to ‘dip’ in to one of the other lanes?
