No Normal Weeks

We’ve developed this saying around our house in the past year: there are no normal weeks.

What Hannah and I are referencing is that every week has something going on out of the ordinary.

Someone is sick, a car needs repairs, someone is traveling, extra work pops up, or whatever it is.

We used to get to Monday and say, “this is going to be a normal week!” Inevitably, something would come up and it wouldn’t be a “normal” week.

Now the mantra is: there are no normal weeks. We’ve got to be able to bend and adapt, while still being rigid in what we want to get done.

Because if you’re waiting for the perfect, quiet, distraction-free week to train, eat well, or start at the gym… you’re going to be waiting a long time.

The people who make progress aren’t the ones who string together perfect weeks. They’re the ones who do a good job in imperfect ones.

They get 2 workouts instead of 4.
They shorten a session instead of skipping it.
They go for a 20 minute walk when the day gets away from them.

It doesn’t look impressive in the moment. But it adds up. Much more so than 4 workouts one week, 0 the next two.

A “normal week” is a trap. It sets the expectation that everything has to line up before you can execute.

So instead of chasing normal, we expect the disruption.

—Justin Miner