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Understanding your goals to help you achieve them.
Why Health and Safety is Important in a Fitness Environment
Health and safety in a fitness environment is extremely important, especially in today’s society where more people are actively going to the gym and taking part in exercise programmes. As the fitness industry continues to grow, the number of risks within these environments also increases.
By Saad 7 days ago in Motivation
My Fear of Fiction
Introduction I don't think I am very good at fiction and don't believe that I could ever write a book. To me, there is too much planning involved and my mind likes to run off in an uncontrolled manner where I reign it in if I get too wild. This is really about how I manage to write fiction despite being scared stiff every time I put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 days ago in Motivation
The Rejection
How 117 "No's" Led to the Biggest "Yes" of My Life REJECTION NUMBER ONE 😤 The first investor I pitched my business idea to listened politely for exactly four minutes before interrupting me to say "This is the worst idea I've heard this year and I hear terrible ideas professionally" and then stood up, shook my hand, and walked out of the conference room leaving me sitting alone with my carefully prepared slide deck and my shattered confidence and the first of what would become one hundred and seventeen rejections that collectively transformed me from a naive optimistic entrepreneur into someone who understood that the path to success is not paved with yeses but rather with nos that teach you what yes requires 📉
By The Curious Writer7 days ago in Motivation
The 5-Second Rule
THE MORNING I ALMOST QUIT EVERYTHING 😰 Three years ago I was standing in the parking lot of the company where I had worked for seven years staring at the front door and physically unable to make myself walk through it because the anxiety that had been building for months had finally reached a level where my body simply refused to cooperate with my mind's instructions to move forward, and I stood there for twenty-two minutes according to my phone's step counter which recorded no movement during that period feeling simultaneously paralyzed and panicked because I knew that not walking through that door meant losing my job and losing my job meant losing my apartment and losing my apartment meant moving back in with my parents at thirty-four years old which felt like a confirmation of every fear I had about being fundamentally incapable of functioning as an adult in a world that seemed to operate by rules everyone else understood but that I had never been given 😔
By The Curious Writer7 days ago in Motivation
“Why Self-Discipline is the Key to a Successful Life”
Every day begins with a quiet decision — a choice between comfort and purpose, between delay and discipline. Most mornings, that choice is made before the world even wakes up. On this particular day, I chose purpose.
By hamad khan7 days ago in Motivation
It's Difficult Without a System | The Iron Standard Day #2
After completing the first day of the challenge (Read Day 1 for the rules here), I found that I only managed to complete 14 out of the 18 tasks. The challenge was always going to be ambitious, and with this many to do I found myself rushing to complete as many as I could before the day's end. I need to have a system.
By Dave's Your Uncle!8 days ago in Motivation
The 10-Second Pause
THE REACTIVE PATTERN THAT DESTROYS RELATIONSHIPS The vast majority of relationship damage occurs not during calm rational discussions where both parties are operating at full cognitive capacity and choosing their words carefully but rather during the three to five seconds immediately following a triggering statement when the emotional brain hijacks control from the rational brain and produces a reactive response that escalates conflict rather than resolving it, and this reactive window is so brief and so automatic that most people are not even aware they have entered it until the damaging words have already been spoken and the other person's face has already registered the impact, and the remorse that follows the reactive outburst cannot undo the damage because words once spoken cannot be unheard and the trust that was violated by the reactive attack requires time and demonstrated behavioral change to rebuild.
By The Curious Writer8 days ago in Motivation
The Two-Pizza Rule for Decision Making
THE DECISION PARALYSIS EPIDEMIC Modern life presents an unprecedented number of decisions daily, with some researchers estimating that the average adult makes approximately thirty-five thousand conscious decisions every single day ranging from what to eat and what to wear to complex professional and personal choices that have long-term consequences, and this massive decision load produces a state of chronic decision fatigue where the quality of your choices deteriorates progressively throughout the day as the cognitive resources required for good decision-making deplete, and the result is that your worst decisions tend to happen in the evening when your decision-making capacity is at its lowest, which unfortunately is when many of the most consequential personal decisions are made including relationship conversations, financial choices, and parenting decisions.
By The Curious Writer8 days ago in Motivation
