My annual list is out…for lots of reasons I enjoy reflecting on the recent past and sharing it with you. Thank you to the readers, clients and colleagues I have encountered this year! I hope you enjoy this list. We learn from each other. I appreciate you.
1.The world is round not flat. What I believed a few years ago is not necessarily true or what I believe today. We change, we grow and get better.
2. Finding the minimal effective dose is amazing. The key word here is effective. Where is the line you cross to reach effectiveness when it comes to golf practice, work outs, food portions, work versus rest/recovery and so on? Finding that sweet spot is pretty cool.
3. Trust the process. When you get advice from experts, trust them, period.
4. Put one foot in front of the other and keep it simple. (This one appears on my list every year in some form or fashion. Someone is trying to tell me something.)
5. Trust your experience – science will catch up. Some of the best mentors in my field, Michael Boyle and Al Vermeil, are mostly field-tested and teach from their experience. The science seems to catch up to them years later and proves that they knew what they were doing all along.
6. Your actions and experience can change your genes. Your actions can change your mind too. The age old debate of environment vs. genetic always seemed so limiting to me. I figured there had to be more to it. Now we know from science that environment changes the way genes work. Wow. Here’s the article in case this is a new one for you… How Exercise Changes Our DNA.
7. Saying YES to something means saying NO to something else. This is especially relevant to scheduling. When you understand what you will have to give up in order to agree to something then the decision becomes way more realistic.
8. Start before you are ready. The perfect time doesn’t exist.
9. You don’t get what you don’t pursue. If you want it then ask for it.
And finally…
10. Celebrating success is really important. It’s like the wax seal on the envelope, the ribbon on the package and the check mark that says “completed.” Setting out to do something and doing it deserves a celebration! Here are the fireworks I gave myself for completing a 2014 goal of 150 strength workouts….
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