Home Court and Away Court

Can you get an Away Court Advantage? ⛹️‍♀️

Can you get an Away Court Advantage?

As I’m writing this message, I’m away from Memphis with a pulled hamstring that I got on the road exercising.  Trying to keep your “Home Court” habits on the “Away Court” isn’t easy.  This led to me thinking about what are my Home Court Advantages and my Away Court Advantages.  Then, I got to thinking building Away Court Advantages that exceed the Home Court.  Here’s new thinking for those growing on the go.

Let me know what you think and forward this message to a friend in the same boat.

Cheers,  

PS: Last month, I emphasized how Position and Surface Area increase your rates of luck and success.  Those insights are directly related to habits which I’ve spoken to in the past year (Getting Predictable and How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything).  

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Winning on the Home Court or Away Game

To move past some big plateaus in personal and professional growth, we’ll eventually need to take ourselves and our habits on the road to new opportunities and literally to new stages.  Thus, we need to consider the durability of our habits in a variety of contexts.

Maintaining our habits in our home cities is comparatively easy, but harder on the road.  Habits are linked to context and living in the same place enables us to maintain our habits with the same context.  

Prison or No Prison

The saying goes, “Anyone can stay sober in prison.”  However, we need to find ways to stay on track with or without prison.  We need to examine our habits and their durability in various settings and contexts can add to or diminish our habits.

Even if you are the best at maintaining habits at home, travel probably pulls you into a lower state of habit maintenance.  Right now, you may only be able to keep 25% of your good habits on the road, but could you get the 70-80% zone?  Let’s look at some core habits.

Fitness

For instance, weight training at your home gym is easy, but on the road, you could decide to do nothing (0%) or maybe hit the corner of your hotel room for a body weight workout, which is not as ideal, but better than doing nothing.  Is that 55% solution good enough?  Probably for the away court.  

Eating

Eating habits may be harder to manage on the road, but do you switch to a different mode of eating to help such as consistent intermittent fasting on the home court and the away court?  That could help you keep your eating habits in the 80-100% zone home or away.  

Sleep

Flights and time zones disrupt sleep habits, but do you maintain a solid bedtime routine to get the best sleep you can?  Keeping that routine on the road can keep you in better health home and away.

These are the ways in which you can build durability of good habits into your life for both the home court and away court.  Overall, the key message is to invest in improving habits and processes to enable and empower you for the next demands and opportunities ahead.  Are you focusing on process, routines, and habits that empower great results to follow? Let your goals shape these processes and luck and success will follow.  Your consistent processes will get you consistent results.

But Let’s Go Bigger

Can you your Away Court Habits by better than your Home Court Habits?

This newsletter is about finding a new level or gear . . . Here are some ways to reconsider how you can take advantage of the Away Court as an even better context for you to learn, grow, and advance yourself:

  • For diet, it maybe easier for you to use a more extremely healthy diet on the road such as being a “Vegan on the Road”

  • When it comes to reading, use the hours of transportation as a way read more such as listening to audiobooks in the car and reading industry and trade information on the plane.

  • For fitness, may be you take the opportunity to hire a personal trainer that you wouldn’t normally routinely have at home.

  • When it comes to time management you could actually have more control and less interruption if you take thorough advantage of OOO.  This may help you knock out projects that require deeper thinking on the road.  

  • Likewise, goal setting could be easier when you are on the road because you have a new context away from your business.

  • You could even adopt other extreme contexts such as “Forced Boredom” or “Monk Mode” which authors use to crank out books (see below on James Bond).

#AwayCourtAdvantage

As you get ready for the New Year, what context will you set for success?  

Can you set not only amazing home court advantage, but also amazing away court advantage?  

Let me know about your #AwayCourtAdvantages

James Bond Tool for Hyper Success: Forced Boredom

The creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming wrote each of the books in Less Than 2 Weeks by using the Rule of Forced Boredom. Learn more here.

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