Fill Your Pool - Clean Water Only!
Your pool has been drained, you’ve been scrubbing it forweeks/months, now it’s time to fill that bad boy up!
The water you fill that clean pool up with are your daily habits. Here are justa few:
Wake up early
- No snooze button
- Glass of water right after waking (pinch of salt/splash of lemon)
- Sit quiet for 5 mins. (be grateful)
- Read 10 pages (bible, book, No social media)
Schedule your day (You run the day, or the day runs you)
- Meals – plan what you are having for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. If you don’t have a plan, you will fail here. Fuel your body with the best possible foods. Quality in, quality out, garbage in, garbage out! Formula one race cars use the absolute best fuel to get the absolute best performance out. Lawn mowers use the cheap shit. Do you want to be a race car or a lawn mower?
- Workouts – stop saying you are going to workout more, when? Schedule what days and at what times. Be exact. Example, I workout on Monday and Thursday at 5:30am, Tuesday and Friday at 4:00pm, and I go for a run/walk on Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday. That’s right, something EVERYDAY!
- Eat the frog first. What’s important? what can you do today to move the needle? Not just busy work, busy work is always there. If you don’t schedule in the things that will get you to where you want to go, you will end up always being where you currently are.
Kick Ass
- Go through your day not being affected by the energy of a room but be the energy that effects the room. Quit going through the motions of the day and start living like the person you want to be. As far as know, we get one shot at this life. Why not give it your best shot?!?!
Give your family the best version ofyou.
- Too often all of our energy and patience goes out during the day (which is good for those we interact with during the day) but make sure that same energy and patience is there when we get home and interact with the people that mean the most to us. In the end, family is the most important, give the people you love the most the best you have.
Feed your mind (every chance you get)
- Read every day – If you read 10 pages a day, that will equal 18 – 200-page books in a year. Do you think you’d be a different person if you read 18 books last year? You would!
- Listen to something that motivates you – stop wasting your time listening to music in the car. Audio books are an amazing way to chip away at that reading list. There are also millions of motivational videos on YouTube for free. Some of my favorites include Jim Rohn, Zig Ziggler, Eric Thomas, The Rock, David Goggins, Jim Carrey, Joel Osteen, Kevin Hart, Connor McGregor, and the list goes on and on. Whenever I feel my emotions are on a path that doesn’t serve me, I let one these greats help guide me back. Some days I need the encouragement of Rohn, other days I need the kick in the ass of Goggins, but I always need it. Motivation/Discipline is like bathing, effective if done daily.
Go to Bed Early
- In order to do everything, we just detailed, you will need to be well rested and have the energy to win the day.
- Stop with the phone, Netflix, or computer before bed. It sets you up for shitty sleep, which then set you up for a shitty day. Turn everything off 30-60 minutes before bed. Create a routine that will get you ready for a good night’s rest.some text
- Grab that book from the morning
- Do some light stretching
- Take a cold shower
- Talk to your spouse (not about work, kids, problems) talk them like when you were first dating, about dreams, goals, your next big adventure.
- Have sex! What a great way to end a day of kicking ass (this is also a great way to start your day!) It’s also a great way to have a great middle of your day!
Until next week, keep filling those pool with fresh clean water, and remember,it takes a while to fill a pool, give it some time.
In Strength,
Eric Karls M.Ed.
Chief Awesomeness Engineer
Certified Level 3 CrossFit Coach
CrossFit Conductor
