Inch is Better

You’re more focused on the mile than you are on the inch that is why you are losing the race

As a guy, Ever had sex?!

And just given the tip?!

Repeatedly stroking just the tip

In and out

Slowly

Rhythmically

Finding every angle.

Every corner.

Every sweet spot

In Kyokushin karate, there’s something called Ichigeki: the one strike technique

Martial artists train their entire lives to master this one-strike technique. To be able to completely incapacitate your opponent with a single strike, ending the battle mere moments after it began

Most of us in this life is losing the race not because we do not have the stamina, not because we do not have the technique, not because we do not have the will or the desire but because we do not have the ichigeki

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We do not have Bruce lee’s two-finger pushup and sadly, we do not even realize that the reason we do not have that is that we do not acknowledge the journey that led to that ability in the first place

The inches

The simple small steps

The constancy

“Even a limping man goes not backward” Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Everyone remembers roger banister for the sub-4-minute mile but no one even speaks of the decades of training that proceeded it

Every motivational speaker, every pioneer, every revolutionist, every inventor has a journey behind them

The results tell the story of the journey, of the failures, the mistakes, the pitfalls, the achievements, the losses, the sacrifices

But like any breakout solo artist, they cajole, twist, and manipulate the story of the group, the true beginnings, the failures, the fuckups, the mistakes

But there are no results without the journey and there is no journey without the small simple steps

The inch…