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Energy is a natural byproduct of excitement, passion, and planning.
Just remember back to the first time you were feeling tired, lethargic, or ‘down-in-the-dumps’.
How did you regain that addictive substance called energy? You remembered something that you wanted to do or had to do that lit your soul on fire, which gave you happiness, or sparked something inside of you that was begging to be called upon.
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The age old adage of calories in vs. calories out is in full effect here. That adage and saying that you hear constantly is actually very important, perhaps the single most important element if you want to either lose body fat or put on extra muscle.
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Meditation has been used for centuries, and it has started to pick up steam in the past 10-20 years, with people finally realizing that it has actual benefits other than looking like a monk in complete stillness.
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I have been working out for the past 5 years and have learned way more about it than any other subject that I have ever learned.
By far the hardest part of training your body is telling your body that you can push further, regardless of what your brain is telling you.
Continue reading “How to become mentally powerful during a difficult workout”I hear at least 1 commercial a week about this diet, that diet, the new ‘fad’, the new ‘bro-science’ diet, and they all have one thing in common.
They are all useless.
All of them pry at your weakness, which is that they make you believe that fat is a negative, that being fat is something that needs to be eradicated from society, that having a perfectly sculpted body and physique is what is required for happiness.
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Just worked out this morning. Nothing serious, just a few hill sprints, regular sprints, squats, lunges, the normal HIIT training workout. But there was something I noticed.
Whenever you train your body before the sun rises, there is an immediate surge of dopamine that hits your system when you start your session and again once you end it. It is more powerful than sweating and training hard at any other time of day. I think this is because you are doing something that is so far outside of your comfort zone, without food in your stomach, and the fact that, unless you have a workout partner, you are completely alone with nature.
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Everyone boasts about what they are currently doing, but if they really followed through on something, anything, then they wouldn’t have to be boasting at all. They could merely be present and live their life and people could ask them how they got so successful in the first place.
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I ultimately want to succeed. I ultimately want you to succeed. I want everyone reading this and around the world who has not gotten the opportunity to read this yet to succeed.
But barely any of these wishes will come to fruition. And it is not because some people are born with better genetics, or flashier athleticism, or insane beauty, it is because they were willing to put the work in and others were not.
Just this morning, I failed yet again. I failed to stay awake after my alarm went off. That failure taught me more than all the times in the past two weeks that I have successfully gotten up and stayed up. That is because failure is the most powerful motivator, teacher, and philosopher any one of us will ever come into contact with.
As you can probably tell by now, after reading this short excerpt or some of my other articles, I am obsessed with progress. I want to understand it, know what it is at its core, so that I can apply it to my own life.
This doesn’t happen easily, as I’m sure you’ve ascertained by now. If you haven’t, you’re in for one hell of a reality check. Work is all that is required to succeed. Not your 9-5, but the work that you put in on the side every single day that attributes to your potential successes in the days, weeks, months, years, and even decades to come. The greatest thing I can teach you is the main subject of this article. Self-sabotage is real and it is why only 1% of people succeed. Apply these few practices well and consistently, and you will be able to break through the confines of self sabotage and achieve your wildest dreams.
First, we must understand what self-sabotage is. This is the practice that around 98-99% of the population instills upon themselves to make sure they will not succeed, change, grow, prosper, or achieve more. Believe me, nobody does this on purpose. It is actually hardwired into our brains at birth, and we have to learn these few simple steps that it takes to overcome it.
Why do we employ these measures when we could easily give them up and start succeeding today? If you read my last article about working on the weekends, then you know a bit about how the brain works and why it works the way it does. I am going to explain it a bit further in this article to drive home why we are born with the function to shut our own growth down completely.
When we are born, our brain has been developing for 9 months inside our mother’s womb. We have learned to rely on her to give us life, and now we have 2 people, our parents to hopefully give us food and shelter for our adolescent years so that we can learn the world slowly and at a gentle pace. Some people are not fortunate enough to have 2 parents, or even 1, and have to learn to live on their own means, at an age that is far too young to be living completely on their own. These people, however empathetic you may feel for them, or if you had the bad luck of becoming one of them, are actually much further ahead mentally in the game of life then any one of us will ever hope to be as this point.
Let’s just take a look at some of the most successful people in the world, and you will see my point:
These examples are not meant to motivate you. They are meant to show you that anyone can overcome the simple switch in your brain that has to be turned, regardless of your background, regardless of your upbringing, rich or poor, born with beauty or not, two parents, one, or even zero. It simply doesn’t matter. If you come from a worse off background, the switch is easier to turn, and if you come from a wealthier background where money is plentiful already, then the switch becomes harder to turn.
As I mentioned before, your brain is born with a simple survival mechanism that keeps it safe and makes sure that you live long enough so that you can procreate and keep the race going. It is a very simple thing, but this is the justification behind the reason your brain will sabotage you when you strive for change. What is this reason?
Your brain seeks comfort, because comfort is the one feeling that assures your brain that everything will be okay and we will live a long time. However unhappy, unfulfilled, and terrible that life is, your brain doesn’t care. It doesn’t give a rat’s a** about you and your dreams.
As long as you live long enough to have kids, your brain could care less about how you get there.
This is the switch that needs to be switched on. This is the very thing that has been holding you back. You need to switch from the mindset that comfort is where happiness lies. True, when you experience comfort, there is momentary happiness, but that fades away quickly as your brain searches for a more extreme level of comfort. This leads down a dangerous path. Some examples include overeating, binge watching TV, consuming X-rated activities through the internet, drugs, alcohol, and anything else you can think of that gives you momentary comfort and could be labeled as addictive.
This is also why people from a lesser background in terms of money or housing grow and become more than 99% of people on Earth. It is because they have already made the switch, or because they were forced to live in an uncomfortable setting for so long that they got tired of it and became successful, sometimes without even trying to.
We, either consciously or not, realize that we have something stable to fall back on if our dreams fail, and so we never put 100%, our entire being and soul, into what we love, what we cherish. Because if we truly cherished it, then nothing else would matter.
We would strive to be better than we were yesterday. We would work until we couldn’t work anymore because we wouldn’t care about a moment’s worth of comfort because we would know that if we kept working, then we could change our life and become something most people only dream of, happy.
Some people have already made the switch. I am currently trying to push mine from off to on, but for me, the switch is slightly harder to turn on because I know that if I completely fail, I have a support system, I will not run out of money in the process.
Something amazing occurred to me this morning. It was that without discomfort, nothing ever grows. I want you to understand that when you fail, when you experience that discomfort, realize that this is the feeling you want to feel.
At the very least, better feeling discomfort that you know you have an opportunity to grow from than comfort, which you have felt hundreds to thousands of times and you already know that nothing magical comes from.
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Let’s grow together. That is the goal for this company. To teach you the skills I have learned the hard way. To teach you and spill my ideas out about what I believe to be the best methods for growth. The best methods to obtain true happiness. True passion. True confidence. I want all of that for you. I am trying everyday to deliver on that promise.
Come win with me.
What do I mean by that title?
The title in and of itself is extremely self-explanatory, but there is a deeper meaning wrapped into what comes with the decision to apply yourself outside of what is required.
This is where champions are made.
Continue reading “Weekends will make or break how successful you become”
I did not want to get out of bed this morning. It was actually luck that I did, because I had a lot of things I needed to accomplish before going to work.
I had forgot to fill up my huge cup of water I usually drink part of when I wake up and I don’t mean to, but today it was empty and my throat was extremely dry. So, even though all I wanted was to hop back into bed and fall back asleep, I struggled down to the faucet, fighting my own mind and mindset all the way, “should I get up?”, “should I go back to bed?”
Continue reading “Why waking up with the sunrise makes you powerful”