Category: Mental Training

  • Are you strong?

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    Dude how much can you bench? A popular refrain I recall hearing…in high school, and maybe a few years beyond. Then the decades passed—yes almost decades plural. Part of the idealism of youth being replaced with the practicality of experience. Reminds me when my dad told me that old age and treachery will always beat…

  • Poise

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    “I am calmly active. I am actively calm. I am a Prince of peace sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of activity.” Paramahansa Yogananda I’ve been thinking a lot about this word lately. Main reason I’m thinking about it is that I had some issues with premature ventricular contractions a while ago.…

  • Feeling vital, a story about PVCs

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    As soon as the walk light flashed orange and told me I had 16 seconds to cross, I sprinted. Well, sprint is relative–I had a 20 pound backpack on. But I hustled, and it was just a reaction. I was feeling good and ready for the physical challenge. I am feeling vital. A bunch of…

  • Chris Caracci’s the Mind in Battle

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    I used to do Chris Caracci’s exercise tapes. Caracci, a former Navy Seal, would frequently pepper his workouts with tips about how the mind controls the body. He’d have you doing pretty intense calisthenics and at some point you had to decide whether to let your body tell your mind to quit or your mind…

  • The Dread of Night (the fear of fatigue)

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    “I dread the night,” my wife told me at one point a few months after our first child was born. Do you remember those days? Are you going through them now? You hear the little one cry out–fear shoots up and down your spinal cord, “Oh God, am I gonna have to get up?” If…

  • Three Steps to a Consistent Health and Wellness Routine

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    The basic life decisions that we mess up on a daily basis aren’t hard. They just require planning and self discipline—and a vision of who and what you want to be. Want to develop an awesome health and wellness routine? Here are three things you can do. Adopt a Framework Frameworks are great. Hopefully you’ve…

  • Ditching Stuff That’s Not Working

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    It’s not about daily increase, but decrease—hack away the inessential! – Bruce Lee Here is a list of stuff that pisses me off (er, stuff that doesn’t work): Routine passive TV watching – this habit is so lame. If you can tell me intricate details about characters from two or more shows your life needs…

  • Dig Into It Deeper

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    David Schwartz’s great book The Magic of Thinking Big says that to set off enthusiasm, you must dig into it deeper.

  • Bandwidth and Excellence

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    You know that your Internet pipe can only allow so much traffic through. A similar thing can be said for your mind. And lots of stuff can clog up the mind and make it not function correctly. When that happens, everything in your life is messed up. I’m concerned. Concerned that mind bandwidth is dwindling…

  • A Clear Assessment of the Current Situation

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    Periodically, we need to review everything in our life. Our routines, the things we are doing, how we spend our time, who we spend our time with, how we pass our weekends, how we are learning and growing, things that are causing problems, things we’re eating, things we’re lifting, what we’re thinking… Everything. Then, we…