Incremental progress to me is defined as a measurable improvement in a metric within a certain amount of time.
My interest in this dates back to my time in an engineering job with a moderate travel schedule. I experienced the same challenges as many of my colleagues at this firm; with a busy travel schedule time for other activities and hobbies becomes limited rather quickly.
On the road for example, it was difficult to keep up with my guitar hobby. I am sure I could have brought a guitar on the flight but decided it wasn't worth the hassle. If anything one major issue was my distrust of baggage handlers. Since I only had one electric guitar and one acoustic, I couldn't afford to take the risk of them damaging them.
My exercise schedule was another issue. Since I preferred to lift weights and use running as my cardio, I was limited to using hotel gyms. Hotel gyms leave a dedicated exerciser wanton in many ways. First the dumbbells they have are fairly light. That is probably ok given the fact that the machines in many hotel gyms are worse. A sales guy I worked with told a story of using the lat pull down machine at one hotel. The cable snapped, and as that happened during the pulldown he cranked the bar into his neck.
Hotel gyms have stepped up their game since the 90's but still aren't the best. If you aren't a member of a large chain with reciprocity, your options seemed limited. Bodyweight exercise regimes didn't seem to be as popular. I suppose at the time I would have thought to do pushups and situps, but wasn't creative enough to do anything more. Now bodyweight workouts seem to be popular and a search for a good workout is just a click on a smartphone app away.
In a series of posts I intend to write (because practicing my writing will be a form of incremental progress in itself), I want to explore incremental progress and how I hope to apply it in my life.
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Dave
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