Posts Tagged ‘balance’
Tired reps
Stop practicing being tired before you get good at it. Start practicing the early recognition of tired so you know when your productivity, sound decision-making, and therefore efficiency begin to drop. Over time, the repetition of intentional action at the edge of your potential followed by recuperation from the microtrauma this induces fortifies skillsets with…
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Alignment is efficiency.
Efficiency is conserving resources while achieving a result. Of our resources, time is the most fixed. So how are you aligning the rest of your energy, money, relationships, experiences, and skillsets? Are you… investing vs spending money? investing vs exerting energy? investing in vs having relationships? Investing resources that achieve an outcome that serves other…
Read MoreListening is relational proprioception
Proprioception is the perception or awareness of the position and movement of your body. The reason this is important is that you use this information to guide your decision making about position and movement. As you walk, it is proprioception that tells you the shape and firmness of the ground and helps guide appropriate motor…
Read MoreConducting health
The conductor of an orchestra is typically not as skilled at playing the violin as the 1st chair violinist. The conductor is the expert at directing the performance of the orchestra as a whole. She knows when the violin should come in and fade out. She recognizes when an on beat quaver pattern from the…
Read MoreDear Dentist with EDS / JHS in pain
Email received from Dentist after meeting the person at a screening: Dear Lance, Thanks for the email. It turns out, the doctor (spine surgeon) diagnosed me with Hypermobility syndrome- apparently all of my joints have excessive mobility, which can lead to neck/back pain and headaches. He recommended going to PT and doing some Pilates/strength training.…
Read MoreThe short and long games
The short game will cause noticeable change before your very eyes. And as soon as your eyes are averted, the change will often snap right back to it’s original state. The long game boils a frog one degree at a time and your life is shaped one action at a time. If you align your…
Read MoreOpen water swimming
When you 1st learn to swim in open water, you have to lift your head up to look for your marker every couple of strokes. If you don’t you will end up swimming in a huge “S” and significantly increasing the distance that you swim. While looking up to find your mark saves on distance,…
Read MoreOne vision is one version
Being a parent requires having vision. If being a parent is the highest priority, then all other activities are strategies that promote this. Becoming a partner and/or spouse is a strategy to be a better parent. A chosen profession is a strategy to be a better parent. Aligning the ability to find enjoyment by contributing…
Read MoreThe vision bucket
Having a vision is like having a really big bucket. It is the biggest bucket that life’s other buckets are placed within. If a smaller bucket like a career, relationship, or hobby is being filled with the resources of time, energy, focus, and money it is most effective and efficient for the filling of that…
Read MoreNobody can make you feel
Nobody can make you feel wrong. Nobody can make you feel stupid. Nobody can make you feel. You’re more powerful than that. 1) You notice someone do something. 2) Your mind gives meaning to what they did and determines if it contributes to your life, or doesn’t. 3) Then you feel. When you take ownership…
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