Live Free, Laugh Hard

The way to the middle-way is to not succumb to the perceived value of extremes.  This is why I caution people when they believe in the value of extreme behaviors as a solution to their problems - no matter which end that extreme is in.  Those extremes are the opposite ends of the same stick and usually picking that stick up from one end means that you end up smacking yourself in the head with the other end. You can balance the stick holding it in the middle a lot essier than trying to stand it on it's end. Nowhere is this perception, that extreme change is the way to success, more apparent than in health behaviors and fitness goals.  People are forever searching for the most intense program with immediate, extreme results.  They believe that quitting "cold turkey" is easier than reducing their vices, so they go on for years and decades waiting for the right moment to quit all while talking the talk of quitting without any action.  Some order the m...

If you prepare yourself for a jump thinking that you’ll probably fall and hurt yourself, where do you think your body will end up? Every muscle in your body is tensing in preparation to catch you falling, rather than to succeed in your jump. Your attention is on the ground, where you are expecting to end up, not forward where you should be landing. You are ready to fall, not to clear your jump. The same concept applies to any goal. If you assume you’re not going to make it, you begin to prepare to fail. You visualize failure and the reasons why you failed. You give yourself an out instead of pushing yourself harder when things don’t quite workout. You prepare to tell your friends about all the obstacles that kept you from making it, rather than focusing on your moments of small successes along he way. Your thoughts become your biggest obstacle. To beat them, you must identify and change the visual that you allow into your mind. You must practice this process of s...