I notice my weight today is inching up. I will spare you the details but the number is not good. I did exercise on the elliptical this morning and several other times in the last week. I continue to set new peak numbers and then move them back a bit. I saw the news item on a blog post that the worlds greatest loser had lost over 50% of his body weight on the show. Pretty simple rules. Exercise more and eat less. Funny that so many of us have problems executing these simple rules
You know A lot of projects are like this. I have seen projects with simple rules and sometimes not so simple rules. Most of the time, the projects with simple rules assume some type of adult behavior and reasonable judgment. There is less to remember and by removing the ambiguity of rules that try and take in both the normal cases and the strange and unusual cases, there is more likelihood that the rules will be applied as intended. Judgment may come into play, but once you actually talk to someone about what they were thinking, the number of times when you just can not support their judgment goes down dramatically,
Coaching people around what the shared objectives are and putting in place some simple rules that allow judgment to be applied is far less work than unsuccessfully attempting to think of all of the outliers. This also allows the rules to be a more flexible and an easier to apply reference point than rules that require extensive study, written documentation and memory work to apply.
Back to my personal weight goals. Eat like I want to have a more healthy lifestyle and get some exercise. Now that I know what do do I can move from planning to execution
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