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✅ How to force yourself to do the things you want to do:
Last week I wrote about why I started this Saturday 7 newsletter. It was a means to force myself to do the things I knew I wanted to do.
I thought about this idea of having to "force myself to do the things I want to do" all week. Because it doesn't make sense. Shouldn't this be our default?
But our environment stacks the cards against us. We want to eat healthy, but it's easier to drive through McDonalds. We want to get in shape, but it's easier to plop on the couch in front of Netflix. The things we know we want to do become our "should do's" that don't get done.
3 years ago I realized that in order for me to do the things I know I want to do, I need to force it via systems and accountability.
This weekly newsletter is the "system" and you are my "accountability" (thank you! :)
This ties into what I've been working on for many months...a health coaching program with built in systems and accountability.
The System
The System starts with a 6-Week Fat Loss Challenge. The idea is to quickly remove bad excess fat stores and improve metabolism. From here we are in a prime position to create long term success without the chronic starvation and deprivation that come with most diets (which inherently aren't long term strategies as you can only starve for so long!).
If you complete the Challenge and are a good fit, you'll have an opportunity to continue in the coaching program where you'll get new monthly personalized plans based on your unique goals to fast-track your success (as you define it).
Bonus
As a bonus and companion to the Challenge, you'll get the RB12 Workout Program. It stands for Resistance Bands 12-Minute Workouts. It's based on the MED (minimum effective dose) for maximum results. For 2 years now all I've done is resistance band training and I've fallen in love with it. This program shows you how to do 12-minutes workouts in your living room that (when combined with the Challenge) will transform your body.
The Accountability
Using the right systems are crucial to getting results, but I would argue that accountability is every bit (if not more so) important. This coaching program has multiple layers of accountability. From live coaching sessions to team dynamics to daily check-ins and checklists, you get the support, motivation, and accountability to see the Challenge through to the end and beyond, ensuring success long term, ensuring follow through on "doing what you know you want to do."
Enrollment
Due to coaching capacity, our absolute maximum number of participants is capped at 80. But if you want in, we're starting "Prep Week" on February 7th, so you have to be enrolled by the 4th (assuming seats remain). "Day 1" of the Challenge starts on February 14th. Yes, Valentines Day. As one of our coaches, Courtney, said "It's the perfect time... Fall in love with your new body."
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🐣 What was the tweet of the week:
My 2022 Challenge is to reignite my writing (force me to do what I want to do!) via tweeting once per day. So far it's gone really well.
The "system" of a tweet/day has forced me back into the research, from where I take my notes, from which I distill into a tweet.
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📏 What we're measuring:
When building out the Meat Health Coaching program I kept an article by the Harvard Business Review in mind that talks about how to measure success. It flips traditional KPI's on its head. Instead of measuring what the company wants, it advocates for tracking the metrics that the customer wants (CPI = Customer Performance Indicators).
For the 6-Week Fat Loss Challenge, our top metric isn't growth or revenue, rather it is tracking transformations and total pounds of (sustained) fat loss. By focusing on the customers' success, the company success naturally follows.
Most leaders say they’re customer-centric, but if everything they measure is company-centric, how could that be true? Revenue, growth, and similar Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) measure how customers are performing for the company. But organizations that wish to be customer-centric must also measure how the company is performing for its customers.
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🏹 Which are you: Generalist or Specialist
I enjoyed Adam Savage's perspective when he was asked, "Do you lament being a generalist?"
One thing he alludes to here, without saying it outright, is that you can be a "Specialist at Generalizing."
A tip I'd offer for this is to apply Pareto's Principle to acquiring skills and knowledge, where 20% of the effort / time can give you 80%+ of the actual skill. Apply this across many disciplines and you can become a "Specialized Generalist" with the ability to draw from numerous seemingly unrelated areas, mix and match ideas, and create things no one else could have imagined,
made possible by your unique blend of Generalist Specializing.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
Sometimes it just takes one question to point the way:
Is it good for me?
Is it good for me to eat a piece of chocolate cake? Is it good for me to go dancing? To help a friend? Does it deplete me or empower me?
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🛣️ Where all roads lead:
While a picture may be worth a thousand words, my last drawing, "All Roads," may be better represented by a Venn Diagram...
All Roads as a Venn Diagram
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🏀A lesson from Kobe:
What Alan learned from Kobe will make you better at anything you do.
"Never get bored with the basics."
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As always, it's a pleasure and honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock.
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