How you fill your ruck is important.
The Multi-Mission Parachute System can carry a total weight of 425 lbs. of Marine and equipment.
The parachute doesn’t care how you make up the total weight of 425 lbs.
A 225 lbs. Marine can carry 200 lbs. of equipment.
A 125 lb. Marine can carry 300.
You just can’t exceed the limit.
This is like time.
Each day we have a limit of 24 hours.
Time is a rucksack. The things we fill it with are the things that are important to us.
That sounds good, but it’s mostly bullshit. More accurately, we fill some of the container with things that are important to us, but much of it is filled with the things we do to avoid doing the things we say are important to us but that we are afraid to do, or just don;t feel like devoting the effort and energy to.
James Clear says that "every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become."
I don’t quite agree with that. I would adjust it to say that every action we take and every minute of time we spend is a vote for the person we will become, whether we want to become that person or not.
Often, we fill our ruck with things designed to prevent us from doing the things we know we need to do.
We waste the most precious resource we have.
When packing a ruck for a parachute insert, the weight limit aproaches fast. We have to ask of each item:
"Is this item important enough to devote space and weight to?"
"Is is mission critical?"
We should start asking the same question of how we spend our time.
Until next week,
Keep Walking Point
John
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