How to Actually Hit Your Fitness Goals [Part 1/2: Mindset] “Greatness is a lot of small things done well.” – Ray Lewis As January comes to an end so do most New Year’s resolutions. With his enthusiasm slowly waning, the gym-newbie slips back into old patterns of behaviour. The intermediate, frustrated by a lack of …
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Though it may feel like your life has been put on hold, it hasn’t. You’re not getting this time back.
Grit is about perseverance and commitment; it’s repeatedly making those difficult choices that you’d rather not, but that you know you should.
When someone has grit, they are typically able to make choices based on their values rather than their emotions…
“The key to a good life,” according to Mark Manson, “is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important…”
It’s worth being deliberate in choosing what we read. These are five – potentially life-changing – books that every young man ought to get.
In Mastery, Robert Greene outlines the path to greatness. He explains how Albert Einstein became the greatest scientist of the 20th century; how John Coltrane was able to revolutionise jazz music; and Henry Ford, the entire motor industry (to name just a few).
How can we live happier lives? This is the question that Derren Brown aims to unravel in his latest book, Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine…
Rather than always trying to do more, we might consider where we could actually do less. With fewer options (i.e. fewer tasks taking up our time), we have more time to direct to the areas we’d actually like to focus. By slowing our pace, we avoid burning out needlessly and can continue our efforts far longer, gradually building on them with time…
Can’t Hurt Me is the brutally-honest account of his life to date. In the book, Goggins details his transformation from a depressed young kid to arguably the toughest man on the planet…
Do you have a ‘fixed mindset’ or a ‘growth mindset’? According to Carol Dweck, one of the world’s leading researchers in social and developmental psychology, you’re probably better off with the latter – especially if it’s success that you’re after…