Mindset & Motivation

‘So I’ve been thinking about this shot (above) for 15 years and finally I had a chance to do it. So I go to the safety guy and I go, here’s what I’m gonna do. Safety guy goes, ‘you can’t do that.’ So I get another safety guy…’ -Tom Cruise (as told by Matt Damon)

Want to be inspirational? Keep showing up.

You have to join their school, buy their stuff, Subscribe to their plan, program, coaching, website. That’s basically just commerce. They all have some good insights, recipes, workouts, breakthroughs but inevitably there isn’t a one size fits all system.

There’s a great running gag on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ called ‘I can’t prove it; I just know it’s true’. Let’s play a round. I can’t prove Brad Pitt was on Steroids for ‘Fight Club; I just know it’s true.

‘Listening to Kenny G’ is a documentary on HBO that made me love Kenny G. Not so much the music (SongBird is great) but the Man: He’s inspirational.  Kenny, like Baltimore’s famed stick up man Omar Little, has a code, and his code is practice.

Alright then, borrowing a page from the World’s most read blog by James Clear, here are 3 fitness related thoughts, 2 ideas, and one question…

Indeed, as the book ‘Pain neuroscience education’ points out, if someone is not convinced something will work they’re right; and it won’t. The most important factor in the success of any drill, any workout, any diet, any proposed change to your physical/mental state is this:  You have to understand what you’re doing and believe it will work.

What’s your why? Why matters; Why you play; Why you work.  Why you want to get fit.

I ate almost 0 processed sugar for 110 days because I wrote about it on this blog. When I was tempted to eat something sugary I declined because it would be embarrassing to fail in front of an audience. So thank you, Dear reader, for holding me accountable. In so doing I may have learned the strongest hack for accountability.

The Holidays over, the resolutions are fresh, the gyms are packed and the Trainers… business is a little slow. It runs contrary to the prevailing sentiment that our business doesn’t pick up, but never once in 20 years have I seen an uptick in business on January 2nd. Never.