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🦬 My Word of the Year
My fitness goal for the quarter basically has nothing to do with fitness… it’s more about the habits that come with it, and the physical aspect of the goal is just the medium for that discipline muscle to manifest.
Have you ever wondered what I look like in a hot dog costume?
First of all… I HOPE you’ve never wondered that. But if you have, then you should be rooting against me to accomplish my current fitness goal.
I recently entered into a challenge with some coworkers - any of us who don’t accomplish our fitness goal for the quarter have to wear a hot dog costume to one full day of our next work event.
May the best wiener win.
By the end of Q2, I will have worked out on 70% of all days.
64.
That’s the number of days I need to work out this quarter in order to hit that 70% number.
I’ve set some loftier goals - and I’ve definitely set some more impactful goals - so why did I choose this as my Q2 fitness goal (and why should you care)?
2 reasons:
First…
I’ve set some pretty ambitious fitness goals in the past. Between running a marathon, half-Ironman, and 2-day-long ultramarathon, I’ve sunk a lot of time and energy into accomplishing these things.
This year, however, I’m going to be diverting a lot of that time and energy to complete my financial goals (more on those in a later edition).
Lesson #1: It’s ok for different seasons to serve different purposes. You don’t have to run the marathon, build the business, live at church, and take your wife on 82 date nights every quarter.
It’s ok to have different points of emphasis at different times.
(Hoping that was a sigh of relief for some of you. It was for me when I first realized it.)
Second and more importantly…
My goal isn’t to “have abs” or “get jacked.” The reason behind my goal is to be a professional.
That’s my word of the year: “professional.”
It comes from Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art (top 5 favorite book of all time). He explains that when you’re a professional at something, you don’t negotiate about whether or not it’s going to get done. It just gets done.
Example: Whatever your job is - whether you’re an accountant, a teacher, or a grocery clerk - you’re a professional at it. You show up and you do the job. No ifs ands or buts.
So why don’t we take that same commitment-level to our faith, family, and fitness lives?
It’s because we’re not thinking of ourselves as “professionals” in those areas.
I love what Pressfield said when someone asked him about his writing process:
“Do you write every day at a certain time or only when inspiration hits you?”
He responded, “I only write when inspiration hits me. But inspiration just happens to hit me at 9am every morning.”
THAT is what it means to be a professional.
And that’s why my fitness goal for the quarter basically has nothing to do with fitness… it’s more about the habits that come with it, and the goal is just the exercise meant to workout that “discipline muscle.”
What to do with this information?
So now that you know my word of the year, I want to challenge you…
What’s your word of the year and what are you doing to embody that?
I know it’s May and I know it’s not for everybody, but if you have a word of the year, share it with me by replying to this email!
And if you don’t have a word of the year, it’s not too late to come up with one! Imagine this…
Some one gives you $365. And then they immediately take back $137 of it. Would you throw away the remaining $228?
Of course not! So don’t throw away the rest of the year!
Take 5 minutes, come up with a word of the year, and then reply to this email with it so I know how to best support you.