DAILY MINDSET “It’s not the stress that kills us. It’s our reaction to it” - Hans Selye There is no such thing as good or bad events. It’s our reaction that makes it feel so. The most successful in life are able to frame their thoughts to serve them. If there is a single trait we must master to get to where we want to go, it’s this. To be able to control the story that we tell ourselves. Shit is gonna happen. There’s certainly no stopping that. But how we choose to respond, a

DAILY MINDSET “Greed is not a financial issue. It is a heart issue.” - Andy Stanley When children stick their hand down a cookie jar and can’t get their full fist of treats out, they get frustrated. But if they were to just drop a few, the hand comes out, still with cookies. And if the child only looks away from the jar, and thinks of having “more cookies”, they are as happy as could ever be. Life can be a race to get “more”. But that is the conundrum that is the cookie jar.

Metcon for All Classes "FIGHT CLUB" 3 Rounds for Total Reps: 1:00 – Thrusters 1:00 – Power Cleans 1:00 – Box Jump Overs 1:00 – Pull-Ups (chin over) 1:00 – Bike Calories Rest 1:00 between rounds. A take on the classical “Fight Gone Bad” workout, “Fight Club” comes in with heavier loadings, and more challenging variations. Much like “Fight Gone Bad”, every repetition (and calorie) counts as a single repetition. And the best way to keep track of so during the workout is to keep

DAILY MINDSET “If you want to be truly successful at it, you cannot be content with pretty good.” – Tim Grover Pretty good is decent. Pretty good is average. Pretty good checks the box. Pretty good... is the enemy of excellent. How we do anything is how we do everything. And there is nothing in life worth doing half-assed. Although we recognize the truth behind that statement, every single one of us can improve on this. What actions this week have been “pretty good”? When th

DAILY MINDSET “The grass isn’t greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it.” What if someone told you that everything you need to succeed in your goals is right in front of you? It might be hard for us to believe them. But why? Comparison is often the reason. We look to someone who has already reached their success, and we convince ourselves that what we have just isn’t enough. It can cut us at the knees, as we now run the risk of never even trying with

DAILY MINDSET “When doing your risk analysis, how do you measure the risk of doing nothing?” There will always be a reason to wait. Always a reason to push to tomorrow. To await that “right moment”. This is a pitfall we’ve all found ourselves in… we wait for perfection. Every single one of us has experienced this… we held off on something, and maybe never started, ultimately because we genuinely believed we were going to fail. Or at least, not get it right, to the extent we w

DAILY MINDSET “It's not that I’m so smart, it's that I stay with problems longer.” - Albert Einstein Adaptation is our most powerful weapon. And it’s not limited to what we do inside the gym. When we think back to a workout, where we spur adaptation, we can all agree that it’s quite the experience. And it’s freaking hard (which is why we love it). When we are working through something on the cerebral level, shouldn’t we expect a similar struggle? Both for mind and body… this

DAILY MINDSET “The only difference between feedback and criticism is how you hear it.” – Tim Grover We are defensive creatures. It’s in our nature for self-preservation. We’ve all related to a time where we felt threatened by feedback. Where we felt like we were being attacked. Much like the primal man, self-preservation kicks in. But outside of that uncomfortable moment, we recognize that feedback is *the best* thing for us. It’s the secret sauce to improvement. So how can w

DAILY MINDSET “People are not lazy. They simply have goals that do not inspire them.” – Tony Robbins Something we can all agree on: anything in life worth achieving, is going to be very, very hard. There’s no two ways about it. So we make goals. But goals sometimes default to the “whats” in life. A “what” can be a certain amount of pounds on the barbell or an amount of pull-ups. Those are goals, but they are not “reasons”. Reasons are what gets us out of bed in the morning. W

DAILY MINDSET “Ductus Exemplo” The above quote is Latin, translating to “Leadership by Example ''. Below is a short story of Ghandi, the famed spiritual and political leader, on the power of authentic leadership. One day, a woman traveled a great distance to take her son to Ghandi. When they finally met, she asked him to tell her son to “stop eating sugar”. Ghandi, in response to the request, asks the woman to come back in 30 days. Confused, the woman leaves with her son, and