The other day I was talking with a new client. It was our 3rd visit. Great guy. Super smart. Been in pain for about a year.
Meniscal surgery back in the Spring didn’t fix his knee pain. This is not surprising to me, as multiple studies have shown no difference in outcomes between people who get their meniscus repaired and people who have a ‘sham’ or fake surgery.
No difference in outcomes.
Take a look at this much replicated study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Anyhow, back to creating your own luck. My new friend let me know that the moves we recorded for him to practice felt quite good (we use an app to record the moves and ideas we’ve come up with in each session to make it easy to remember). But after standing for 5 hours at work, his knee still hurt.
How often are you doing those moves that feel really good?
“I do about 10 of them in the morning.”
If you compare the amount of time you are doing things that contribute to the pain (standing at work, hauling brush in the garden, etc), multiplied by the year you’ve been experiencing this pain, to the amount of time you are doing those moves that make you feel good, what would the ratio be?
Remember, he’s super smartโ—โan economics guyโ—โso that’s all I really needed to say. If anyone is good with math, feel free to figure out the ratio for 5 minutes out of 24 hours multiplied by a year.
I’m a simple girl. I got my daughter’s 6th grade math wrong yesterday. What I do know is, we have to create situations for ourselves that will allow us to find luck ๐
