This Week’s Happenings:
- Peak Mindset Podcast Episode
- “A Fighter’s Mindset” Group Pic – These guys were all in these past 6 weeks. To sum up the course, it’s about keeping you in front of your BS. Excuses, delays, you name it. I want to help you get in front of all that, because once you do, the rest is easy. So much so that I’ll give you my time to answer your questions. Call me – 814 204 2245. Ask for Spaniard :)
- A Fighter’s Mindset Podcast coming soon!
This week’s blog…
I had a heated conversation with someone I’m close to this past week. A friend and mentor. We had two differing views on the same subject (and no, it’s not politics. I don’t offer my opinion on politics because politics stink…see what I did there).
We went into the conversation with an open mind – imagine a static pulse line. Fast forward a minute. I said something. He said something. The pulse line elevated. A few more minutes passed, and though we weren’t irrational in our thoughts and we had our wits, there was definitely an elephant in the room. We were in our first tif.
As I’ve stated before, practicing self-awareness is an invaluable tool. And it’s not enough to just practice it, to just be aware that you are a jerk (or whatever it is), you have to actually change for their to be any value. In the middle of our tif, almost instantaneously, I heard myself state emphatically something I didn’t really know the answer to. I wasn’t lying, I just didn’t put any real thought into my response prior to answering. (To show how trivial this was, we were tiffing over what attracts us to sign up for different email programs. Cool stuff. HA!). I wanted to win the argument.
I had this same mentality prior to my last couple fights. I had this image of what I wanted training to be, what I wanted the structure of my life to be, that I allowed the BEST WAY to be clouded by MY WAY. I was no longer looking for the best recipe of training, I was looking for the recipe that fit best with my ego. And that is a certain recipe for disaster.
In your next tif this week, hit pause and check your ego. Remember what in the heck you’re arguing about in the first place. If your ego wins, you lose.
Spaniard
About the author : cbrenneman
Three days after the birth of his second child, The Spaniard discusses Fathership (a Spaniard term): his gratitude, his hopes, his plans, and how little he and his wife are sleeping. What does this mean for you? The tale involving Sheetz will make you think about the power of example. The discussion of summer camp and iffy acquaintances will help you watch for good and bad influences. The story in the hospital will alert you to opportunities to make simple, difficult decisions for growth. Whatever your relationship to parenting—past, present, future, never—there are thoughts here to help you put your arms around what matters most to you. Also: The three inspirations for the new baby’s name!
Three days after the birth of his second child, The Spaniard discusses Fathership (a Spaniard term): his gratitude, his hopes, his plans, and how little he and his wife are sleeping. What does this mean for you? The tale involving Sheetz will make you think about the power of example. The discussion of summer camp and iffy acquaintances will help you watch for good and bad influences. The story in the hospital will alert you to opportunities to make simple, difficult decisions for growth. Whatever your relationship to parenting—past, present, future, never—there are thoughts here to help you put your arms around what matters most to you. Also: The three inspirations for the new baby’s name!
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It’s host versus co-host. The Spaniard finds competition essential while Dread questions that. The Spaniard gives a wrestler’s and fighter’s appreciation of flesh-and-blood opponents: how they have shaped him, how they have often obsessed him, and how he sometimes has to search for their equivalents. The conversation highlights how competitors personify high standards and how the highest performance might require a winner and a loser. Also: Will baby Rocky let The Spaniard work out?
It’s host versus co-host. The Spaniard finds competition essential while Dread questions that. The Spaniard gives a wrestler’s and fighter’s appreciation of flesh-and-blood opponents: how they have shaped him, how they have often obsessed him, and how he sometimes has to search for their equivalents. The conversation highlights how competitors personify high standards and how the highest performance might require a winner and a loser. Also: Will baby Rocky let The Spaniard work out?
It’s host versus co-host. The Spaniard finds competition essential while Dread questions that. The Spaniard gives a wrestler’s and fighter’s appreciation of flesh-and-blood opponents: how they have shaped him, how they have often obsessed him, and how he sometimes has to search for their equivalents. The conversation highlights how competitors personify high standards and how the highest performance might require a winner and a loser. Also: Will baby Rocky let The Spaniard work out?
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