Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. Sorry if I sound a little bit husky today,

so much better than this morning, but I am slightly unwell, but I'm here and I'm feeling better

so we can get on with today's episode. Today's podcast is going to be on an excellent question from the commit to six

group. And the question is, where is the line between imperfect action and being fuck average,

i.e. how do you stop imperfect action becoming average? I love this question. Now, it starts with, like, I totally get where

she's coming from, right? And I am going to come on to that. But there's a little bit of a

misconception here. And the misconception is that imperfect action is about accepting less. It's not. It's

the exact opposite. It's about doing it even when you can't be perfect. So as examples of this,

let's say you know you're not going to be able to hit your step target. The imperfect action

response would be to still go for a walk to get closer to that target. The perfectionist response

would be, well, I'm not going to hit it, say there's no point trying.

Now, another example might be, you know at your Christmas meal or at a social meal out,

like you know you're going to go over your calories for the day.

The imperfect action response would be to still be sensible, to not eat past fullness, to not use it as an excuse to just eat

as much as possible because you're not tracking. And the perfectionist response would basically

be the opposite to be like, oh well, you only live once. Like, I'm going to eat as much as possible

because I know that I can't be perfect. And then final example I'll give just now

is you know that maybe you won't be able to get in a full gym session today because maybe you

don't have time to get to the gym or you don't have time for a full workout. The imperfect action

response is to do something anyway. The perfectionist response would be, well, I can't do it

perfectly. So there's absolutely no point doing it at all. So you should now see that you do more

within perfect action. Like that's the whole point. It's not an excuse to do less. It's a reason to do

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