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I recently finished a fitness challenge where we did a certain workout on day 1, and then re-did the same workout on day 60 to see our improvements.

One of the issues I saw in this challenge with many of the participants was because it was a competition, sand bagged the first workout because this allowed them to get a bigger improvement score on the 2nd than what they truly improved on.

I can’t say I agree 100% with this strategy, yes it may help get someone a better score, but it also gives you a false gauge on how you improved!

This also got me thinking on how in home business we try and do the minimum required work to make the most amount of money.  Isn’t this “Sandbagging” in a way?

I almost got caught in this when I was picking one of the daily disciplines to do each day.  I was going to do 1 video 5 times per week and call it good…

Then I realized that is kinda sandbagging because I am FULL time work from home entrepreneur.   Surly I can be more productive with my time.

So I decided I will be doing 1 blog, 1 email to my list and then later shoot a video on that same topic to upload to YouTube.

This I will do 6-days-a-week (Sundays off)…

This sounds like it will be a lot more productive and I don’t feel like I’m Sandbagging anymore…

When working out they always say, “You’re only cheating yourself by sandbagging.”  Well I would venture to say the same in business!   Don’t cheat yourself!

Mike Hobbs

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Comments

  1. Great advice Mike. You are so spot on with the sandbagging. I know I can be way more productive and proactive. Thanks for the encouragement.

  2. Hey Mike! I love how you laid out sandbagging on the mastermind tonight. I think we’re all guilty of this no matter who we are. I will definitely practice getting all I can get in so that I can bring more to the table. Great post

  3. Great post Mike and my FAVORITE part was where you said to yourself – “Hey, I’m going to go the extra mile and do a blog post – video AND mail my list.” I love it and I’m so excited to see where we’ll all be in 6 months time. Thanks for your leadership!