Just Sit Back and Do Nothing?
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - William Penn
Back in the saddle again - and I'm in that saddle at an odd hour. It'll take a few days to adjust my internal clock to get back on local time. Oh the perils of an international lifestyle.
During my topsy turvy night, I wasn't sleeping well so I retreated to the livng room and turned on ESPN to catch up on sports news.
AC Milan won the Championship, played in Athens (it was very cool being there as the city prepped for the game).
Roger Clemons is expected to make his Major League return in a few days. At 44 or 45 years of age, "the Rocket" is still an elite player in a game dominated by young men.
In my sport of Taekwondo, Steven Lopez won an unprecedented 4th World Championship in China. It came in sudden death overtime. This guy is amazing. He's won 4 consecutive World Championships, 2 consecutive Olympic Gold Medals, 2 consecutive Pan Am Games Gold Medals and the list goes on.
Basketball, baseball blah blah blah. There is something else that stood out to me during my nocturnal viewing of the electronic income reducer.
During a commercial break an advertisement for an abdominal product caught my attention - and I actually began to laugh.
This little appliance is strapped on to the tummy area and then buttons are pushed. This begins an electronic muscle stimulation process that will tighten the muscles and reduce fat in the area.
The testimonials from the ad were funny. "I can sit at my desk and sculpt my abs" or "Geeze I can even be in line at the bank and work my abs better than...." was another.
Now my intention is not to promote nor denounce this product. When I was living as a resident athlete at the US Olympic Training Center the Sports Medicine teams used electro-stimulation as a way to assist athletes in muscle maintenance during rehab.
My point is this, looking for the easy way out is not the best course for achievement and success in this new millennium.
I appreciate tools and processes that make life simpler or that can assist us in producing more while doing less - to a certain point.
There comes a time when you actually have to do something.
After watching the movie "The Secret" people somehow equate merely thinking about their goals and acting less.
"You must act to attract." - David Martin
It's a very simple concept. The machine, the tool, the "thing" that you must own is your mind. Then you must back up that ownership with action.
All the systems, pills, lotions and potions must have an Action Equivalent or they are worthless.
Remember this, all that you seek in your pursuit of excellence....ALL of it, is available to you if you do the following - decide what it is you want, prepare with that end, commit, execute.
Until next time, Show Up, Suit Up & Step Up!
Best of Success,
David Martin
EmpowerMax PCS, Inc.
info@empowermax.com
www.empowermax.com
The Performance Zone
Back in the saddle again - and I'm in that saddle at an odd hour. It'll take a few days to adjust my internal clock to get back on local time. Oh the perils of an international lifestyle
During my topsy turvy night, I wasn't sleeping well so I retreated to the livng room and turned on ESPN to catch up on sports news.
AC Milan won the Championship, played in Athens (it was very cool being there as the city prepped for the game).
Roger Clemons is expected to make his Major League return in a few days. At 44 or 45 years of age, "the Rocket" is still an elite player in a game dominated by young men.
In my sport of Taekwondo, Steven Lopez won an unprecedented 4th World Championship in China. It came in sudden death overtime. This guy is amazing. He's won 4 consecutive World Championships, 2 consecutive Olympic Gold Medals, 2 consecutive Pan Am Games Gold Medals and the list goes on.
Basketball, baseball blah blah blah. There is something else that stood out to me during my nocturnal viewing of the electronic income reducer.
During a commercial break an advertisement for an abdominal product caught my attention - and I actually began to laugh.
This little appliance is strapped on to the tummy area and then buttons are pushed. This begins an electronic muscle stimulation process that will tighten the muscles and reduce fat in the area.
The testimonials from the ad were funny. "I can sit at my desk and sculpt my abs" or "Geeze I can even be in line at the bank and work my abs better than...." was another.
Now my intention is not to promote nor denounce this product. When I was living as a resident athlete at the US Olympic Training Center the Sports Medicine teams used electro-stimulation as a way to assist athletes in muscle maintenance during rehab.
My point is this, looking for the easy way out is not the best course for achievement and success in this new millennium.
I appreciate tools and processes that make life simpler or that can assist us in producing more while doing less - to a certain point.
There comes a time when you actually have to do something.
After watching the movie "The Secret" people somehow equate merely thinking about their goals and acting less.
"You must act to attract." - David Martin
It's a very simple concept. The machine, the tool, the "thing" that you must own is your mind. Then you must back up that ownership with action.
All the systems, pills, lotions and potions must have an Action Equivalent or they are worthless.
Remember this, all that you seek in your pursuit of excellence....ALL of it, is available to you if you do the following - decide what it is you want, prepare with that end, commit, execute.
Until next time, Show Up, Suit Up & Step Up!
Best of Success,
David Martin
EmpowerMax PCS, Inc.
info@empowermax.com
www.empowermax.com
The Performance Zone
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