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Coach ClayThis blog is where I write out loud about the things I’ve been thinking, seeing, hearing and reading. You can think of it as a sort of first draft of what is currently percolating through my mind. I am a writer, speaker, and coach; former U.S. Army Infantry Officer, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point.
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Do you suffer from procrastination? I know I do big time. I can usually come up with a ton of reasons, good reasons, mind you, for not sitting down to write that novel I’ve been meaning to start, or to empty my inbox which is stacked a mile high with stuff that needs attending to, or [...] I have often been a cheerleader for creating a personal vision, a lofty pie in the sky goal to which one could aspire to, if not always reach. A vision is meant to give direction to human energy. It’s like you can wake up in the morning and know that the things you [...] The American Monk tells me in his morning dispatches that our minds always shape our reality and that we better get it right from the start. Is this true? Has every thought and every decision I have ever made in my life led me to be sitting here at my desk in my bedroom looking [...] Life is a fragile gift. We are here for whatever length of time is allotted to us. Yet we go about our lives as if we have all the time in the world. No worries. What I don’t do today, I can always do tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year even. [...] So now you have a feel for how much fat you’re carrying around, and you have a measure for how aerobically fit you are or not, as the case may be. Time to get a baseline measure of your muscular endurance. I’ll outline two simple tests that we used in the Army to measure upper body [...] In the last post, I talked about the importance of establishing your baseline fitness level. We looked at measuring your body fat percentage. In case I didn’t make it clear in the last post, your body fat is more useful to track and measure, then tracking your weight. This is mainly due to the difference [...] OK all you dirty nasty legs (that’s non-airborne personnel to you civilian types!). It’s time to put some pep in your step, some glide in stride. It’s time to move like lightning and sound like thunder. Yes it’s time to reduce those battleship hips and put some inches on that scrawny chest. If you’re like me, you [...] Eliminating power sinks. A Power sink is anything that binds our energy to it and makes that energy unavailable for other pursuits. To give you an example, if you wear a watch, take it off right now and put it on the opposite wrist to which you normally wear it. Does it feel a bit [...] On Saturday I did my annual New Year’s Day Climb of Mount Snowdon, which for me is a symbolic climb to represent my goals for the year ahead. It’s also an opportunity to spend some time with friends and meet new people who share a similar enthusiasm for personal achievement. The mountains are my spiritual home. [...] |
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