Not feeling too fit? If you’re jogging round the park, you’re lapping everyone on the couch. Not found a job? If you’re up early writing applications, you’re lapping everyone on the couch. Making that first sales call? Producing resources from your ideas? Lapping everyone on the couch.

It doesn’t have to be complicated. Taking simple actions. Creating good habits. Chunking good days together. Consistency, perseverance, action. Moving slowly and surely towards a goal all the time. It’s the Japanese concept of kaizen which means continuous improvement.

Even the slowest, sweatiest, most out-of-shape jogger is lapping everyone on the couch.