A Good Egg
HAPPY EASTER
Marking the break between Summer and Autumn training blocks, Easter this year is a time of rest—that built-in-to-the-practice flipside to the training coin I wrote about a few weeks ago.
But even Leftfielders aren’t immune to the stock-standard rewards trap that, this weekend, is only further amplified by a sense of occasion. And suddenly, what might otherwise be a choice becomes a given.
Tradition = Permission.
Chocolate. Drinks. Buns. You name it. More of everything—and often only because it’s there.
So a simple distinction goes a long way. Chocolate and chocolate-flavoured are not the same thing, so if you’re going to have it, have the real deal.
The same applies across the board. The wine. The cheese. Whatever else finds its way onto the table.
I’m not suggesting a Fabergé— nor that the value of any experience is determined by its price tag— but if you’ve missed the boat in marking out some negative space (for positive reasons) in the lead-up, it does help to further a sense of occasion when any contrast from the everyday must be contrived.
I’m guessing very few Easter missives will be paraphrasing Stalin, but quality has a (limiting) quantity all its own. And of demanding your attention.
Because the point is not abstinence over excess— only awareness. To avoid the mindless, unconscious consumption in favour of a subjectively better experience.
And if you are handing over your hard-earned for something decent—when that money could just as easily be spent on, say, getting yourself further than the Westgate—you’re more likely to enjoy just an egg or two. And you’re correspondingly more likely to savour it.
And so— now in its 10th year(!)—I give you…
THE LEFTFIELD EASTER CHALLENGE
The 4-day Challenge (easy)
Enjoy a few easter eggs, some hot cross buns, and maybe a few drinks, offset with some daily exercise.
The 30-day Challenge (difficult)
Spend four days going bananas, overdoing the eggs, buns and everything else in sight, knocking back drinks and moving only if you have to. And at least 26 days working back to where you are now.
Don’t be an egg.
In either case, have a great Easter!
Enjoy your weekend
- OLI