Hey ,
Happy thursday!
Pat Flynn (one of my all-time online heroes - partly din kasi he has pinoy roots) told a story I keep coming back to.
He called his friend Ryan to catch up. Now itong si Ryan, he runs ultramarathons — around 80 KM, for fun. 3x ng EDSA, tapos you run. (Yes, those people exist grabe.)
Pat recalls that Ryan sounded busy when he called him. There was a film crew at his house that day, with one of those super slow-motion cameras.
Pat assumed na documentary sya.
Nope. They were there to film how his feet hit the ground.
That's it. Just the strike. Over and over.
Ryan's reasoning: a micro-improvement in how his foot lands gets multiplied across 80 km. Something that looks like nothing becomes everything.
I sat with that a while, kasi it quietly contradicted something I've told you before.
Funny thing, may Duolingo streak ako. Past 1,045 days now — one lesson a day, and my only rule is never two missed days in a row. Wala nang iba.
That's compounding by VOLUME. Show up, again, again, again.
The heel strike is a different kind of concept naman.
Same number of steps — he's running the 80 km either way. He's not adding reps. He's fixing one detail inside a rep he already does.
Two different kinds of leverage. And most of us instinctivly reach for the wrong one.
Hindi ba? When work feels like it's not moving, the reflex is MORE. Learn another tool. Add another platform. Start another offer. Buy another course. (tbh ako to, hehe)
More reps of things we've never done — while the things we do every single day stay exactly as sloppy as they were last year.
So here's what a heel strike looks like for a freelancer. Not a new skill. One detail inside something you already do weekly:
The first question you ask on a discovery call.
The first 10 seconds of a proposal, before anyone scrolls.
How fast you reply to a new inquiry.
The one sentence where you explain what you actually do.
Pick ONE. Ignore the rest of that list, kahit mahirap. Thirty days.
James Clear has a line that fits here better than anything I could write:
"The fundamentals: Something many people know, but few people practice."
Yung mga alam na natin. Yun pala yung hindi natin ginagawa.
So ikaw , ano yung heel strike mo?
Not the new thing you're planning to learn. The thing you already do constantly, on autopilot, a little badly. Reply and tell me. Curious kung ano yung pinaka-common dito.
Cheers,
Shoden "Flatfoot" San
P.S. I think my heel strike is... (abangan sa next email hehe)
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