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Just a moment
Stay in the moment.
Don’t let the destination distract you.
Don’t let where you’ve been pull you out of the present.
Don’t let the path overwhelm you.
Don’t let the achievement be the goal.
The now is here, the moment is now, the present is all we have.
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More Super Powers.
Anyone and everyone can and will say something that will annoy you, get under your skin or trigger you. If you keep clashing at that frequency, reacting, getting defensive, justifying yourself, you’ll be stuck at that frequency. If you look around, you might be the only reacting, because everyone has a different frequency they react to. But even if there were more people or population reacting the same way, it doesn’t matter. It’s the same thing – being stuck in that frequency.
The real mission isn’t to get someone else to change their frequency, to get them to stop saying things that are triggering but to change your frequency. That is not so much changing your perspective but rise above the frequency – operate, think, speak and act on a different wavelength. Make your frequency more perfect, more indestructible, more invincible wavelength with truth, conviction, fearlessness and love. When you react, when you give them that power, you’re essentially conforming to their perceptions, to their judgment their fear, their insecurities.
Why would a tall person get defensive if someone called them short. Why would someone feel like they need to justify themselves if someone calls them “lazy” if they put in good time and effort (or fill in the blanks with anything).
If you know your identity, confident in it and conviction and it is truly what you believe, there really is no reason to react, your mistakenly taking the mission as changing someone else’s perspective when the job is to become more secure, seek the truth of your identity and manifest a state of more absolute fearlessness and love.
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Writing.Practice
Just write something. Write anything. Better than writing nothing.
Start with a sketchbook, no lines, no constraints, no limits. Open space. Blank.
Write whatever pops into your head. Doesn’t have to be a complete thought. Maybe it’s just a word, phrase, a scribble, scrabble.
It’s your scratch pad, it will never judge you, criticize you, question you, talk behind your back, think you’re stupid or even think you’re amazing.
Then, when your scratch pad really can’t contain the thoughts that are starting to take root, start to grow bigger than the four sides of the sheet of paper. Take your thoughts to a keyboard and screen. Start with a minute or start with a phrase or an idea. The thoughts aren’t fully developed yet, they need to nurtured. Yet be vigilant, keep judgment out of the room, out of your head.
Only a minute or two. Only a sentence or two. You wouldn’t run a marathon after having only taken brief walks around the block.
Let the phrases, sentences, thoughts and ideas sit in your hard drive, sit in your head. Like a seed planted under the soil, be okay with not seeing anything sprout right away. Know the seed is working, growing, your mind is creating connections, even in your sleep, even in the shower, even when you’re driving, when you see a story, when you meet someone, when you have a conversation that seed is growing.
But it all starts with just writing. Reserving a space for that seed to be, grow and take root. Your ideas and thoughts, your dreams and passions are gifts, it is who you are. Not giving them a space to exist is not giving them an opportunity to grow, develop and become a reality.
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What if I wanted you to win?
Imagine if we lived in a world where the competition wanted the best from their competitor. Sadly, we live in a world where most people are just as happy if they win or beat their competitor because their opponent underperforms, was underprepared, makes mistakes, fails or just isn’t really good. Sure, that’s part of the “game” but imagine if a person as a competitor really wanted to see the best rise out of the outcome and not just win to win.
Imagine if lived in a world where two presidential candidates wanted the best from the other candidate, almost to the point of wanting them to win because it should be about merit, honor, character and value. Not wanting to win or positioning themselves against their opponent because of how “bad” the other person is. I mean what does that say about you? You’re just better than bad?
I find it disheartening when sports teams, players or in any competition where the competitor is so excited they won because the other team or opponent underperforms or just does poorly. It’s not just about winning. It’s about wanting to be at your best, because you’re matched up against the best.
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Smart Stacking
Smart Stacking is a method for developing incremental progressions. As the name implies it’s the idea of stacking abilities on top of each other as you acquire them, with the goal of developing more complex abilities over time. It’s a method to countering the mindset that we should be good at something right away, or comparing our “beginner” self or developing self to how the final outcome should look like.
What are the main principles of Smart Stacking?
- Simplify the complex by breaking them down and reducing them into small achievable practices and routines.
- First Principles thinking – understand and become an expert on the basics, foundations and essentials of the practice you are trying to master.
- Automaticity – With every action you acquire, they will start to become automatic. The once new, difficult and uncoordinated activity will become innate, intuitive and instinctual.
And each new “Stack” will go through a developmental process to acquisition.
- Mechanics – The most rudimentary physical, mental, intellectual mechanics of the practice you’re trying to acquire. It will feel awkward, uncomfortable and inefficient but simply going through the action without judgment or criticism is the first step to acquisition.
- Mental Priming – As the mechanics become more comfortable and natural, more space in your mind will start to free up, allowing you to think less about the mechanics and more on the mental aspect of the practice. Mental aspects including…
- Efficiency – Efficiency through subtraction, what can I minimize or stop doing, what is a drag, what is hindering me, what is taxing my energy, focus and clarity, taking energy away from a more optimized practice.
- Optimization – Optimization through addition, what practices, mindsets, execution, performance can I add to make my practice more productive and fruitful, continuing the path of growth and development.
- Maximum Potentiation – Now once you’ve gone through the Efficiency and Optimization phase now you can start to think about Maximizing Potentiation, that is, in what areas can I start to take qualitative and quantitative measurements – such as increasing intensity, focus, output, work, time, energy, quality.
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You’re defensive
Don’t question reality. Question perception.
Someone says you’re “selfish”. You get defensive.
Someone says you’re “lazy”. You get angry.
Someone says you’re “wrong”. You justify our actions.Here’s the pattern:
Someones says you’re ________ and you question their perception.But somehow their perception and your perception aren’t matching up in reality.
But that person, who might be close to you and knows you well, someone you trust and respect has a perception of you that you don’t see, acknowledge or admit to. Then does it really matter that you think their perception is wrong? Are you asking them to conform to what you think your intentions are? But intentions don’t matter if they’re perceiving it as something else. Perception is the transaction, perception is the reality.
And ultimately it usually is the case that their perception is a source of truth, they’re just calling out the bullshit and you don’t like it. That’s the ego getting defensive.
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Sprint Interval Training
Fun, exhilarating and engaging.
Helps increase and stabilize mood.
Improves focus and mental state.
It is super-high intensity, leveling up intensity of HIIT.
Fast-paced, quick, efficient and optimized.
Maximizes workouts in a short period.
Builds strength and muscle.
Burns more fat for longer in less time.
Challenging, engaging and exciting.
Prevents plateauing, it gets harder as you get better.
Progressive, there is always a new ability to acquire and master.
Teaches the Smart Stacking principle.
Increases speed, power and strength.
Explosive, full-body movements.
Total mind-body connection.
Requires and builds strength in end-range positions.
Mobility and flexibility. Activates the central nervous system. Promotes neuro-plasticity.
Makes you faster.
Translates into athleticism, coordination and sports.
Improves general daily movement ability.
Reveals deficiencies in bio-mechanics, imbalances and immobility.
Increases blood flow and recovery fluids throughout the body.
Improves our metabolic, circulatory, respiratory and immune system.
Trains our body to heal and recover on a shorter cycle.
Improves plyo-ability.
Gets blood and fluids into hard to reach places like tendons.
Improves tendon and joint health and strength.It is difficult, challenging and progressive. It is not simply running back and forth as fast as you can. It is the most functional workout we can perform. Is the most powerful thing we can do with our body without equipment.
It is completely transformative, mentally, emotionally, psychologically and physically.