Your Strength Per Second

We talk about an awful lot here, but I've never sat down and explained the name of this community, what it means to me, and what I hope it means to all of you. Let's get to work.

How Much Can You Produce?

Per a second is a measurement term most people have heard in some areas of their lives. People concerned with highly accurate speed know about meters or feet per second. People who play video games know about damage per second, or the maximum amount of numerical damage their character can deal each second. Examples abound.

Strength Per Second was born of a desire to quantify strength in those terms. Why quantify and measure your strength? Because much as in fitness and health, that which gets measured improves. If you don't know how strong you are in an area, or in life in general, you have no basis by which to measure improvement. And if you're here, you're likely looking to improve in some way.

So we measure our Strength Per Second. How much strength we can output every second of every day. We measure it, and we are always on the lookout for ways to improve it, to raise that output. There are only so many hours - so many seconds - in a day. And you need to spend at least some of them sleeping. So the only way to get more done is to raise that value, that Strength Per Second.

Raising Your SPS

As we already talked about, that which gets measured improves. Track your Strength Per Second in every area that you want to improve, and even the ones you don't. You'll be surprised at what improves and what doesn't.

Once you have a measurement on everything, make sure you identify where you want to improve, and focus on one thing at a time. It's easy to get caught up in a frenzy and want to do everything all at once. Resist this urge, it can easily lead to burn out.

Devote yourself to both being diligent in your tracking, and never, for any reason, allowing your performance to show a consistent decline. Setbacks will happen, but it is imperative that there always, overall, be an improvement. Never stop fighting for that extra inch, that extra bit of strength.

What Is Your SPS?

As always, I want to hear from all of you. What is your Strength Per a Second in life? What do you produce, and how do you find ways to always improve it?