Adding surprise and variety to your goals keeps them fun without derailing progress. A cheat day in fitness, for example, breaks monotony while staying recoverable. Strategic novelty boosts motivation and makes the grind actually enjoyable.
Now, what we will usually find at this point is that we are optimizing and amplifying our success. We may find ourselves closing the gap between where we are and where we want to be with a little less effort and a little less time, maybe with a little bit more enjoyment, and certainly with less risk that we're going to blow ourselves up or fall off the wagon and not be able to get back on. If we choose to. Now it's time to move to the fourth level of the goal setting and achievement pyramid, which is surprise. Can I add variety is the question that we're answering here. And so what we are establishing is what happens if we introduce a little novelty into the schedule and into the guidelines that we've set for ourselves. In fitness, this might be introducing a cheat day. Can you introduce that without setting yourself back? Or if you do set yourself back a little bit, can you recover in a reasonable amount of time?
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