# @milespartain on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw5a19lucpE
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-07T16:25:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Miles Partain (@milespartain) — https://gondola.cc/milespartain

## Caption

Some reflections from AVP Chicago...

There is too much work for the time and energy available.

Defensive posturing and positioning, vision enhancement, film review, serving and hitting mechanics, scramble plays, staying away from bad habits. There’s probably 15 specific things I want to work on. Too many.

This leaves me with choices.

1. Tell myself to work on everything simultaneously somehow and just hope all 15 goals are magically achieved. A continually enticing but deceptive lie.
2. Don’t do anything to cope with the immensity of the task before me. An obvious no, but one I fall into more frequently than I’d like. 
3. Prioritize. An ambiguous optimization monster but definitely the right choice.

I don’t want to go too wide and not deep enough on any one goal, or too deep and not wide enough. But how wide is too wide and how deep is too deep, and for each goal?

It is akin to a supply chain issue. I have not enough time and energy (trucks to transport) to transport too many goals from point A (imagination) to point B (reality). Something has to give, but what? 
I have a couple takeaways from what I learned about optimization in school. First, you are most always subject to constraints and you disregard them at great expense to your objective. And second, most problems, if truly fleshed out, are incredibly complicated and often not worth your time to analyze/solve.

Start simply, and simply start.

Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Proverbs 24:27 Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.

And I hope I never forget the ultimate priority…

Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

#JesusRules #audienceofone #AVPCHI #AVP40 #beachvolleyball #volleyball 

📸 avpbeach
Cover photo: Steve Gentry

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