We might think the mission is to run 5k, get a flat stomach, or return from a knee injury, but is it not just practice?
If you organise to complete the task that’s a mission. However, if you organise around the task, then that’s practice.
How many times do we complete a few mobility, stability, and strengthening exercises, see some improvement, and then think, that’s enough of that?
“I’m on a mission, with no time to lose.”
The alternative is to think of what we do as practice:
“Where’s the value in what I am doing, and what can I carry forward?”
Being on a mission and creating urgency in the offer might just be confusing many into believing that the value of taking care of oneself lies in the outcome, not the practice itself.