Teaching you how to achieve superior health, leanness and performance.
November 8th, 2011 Milan
Recent surfing competition on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach started with sighting of a big, scary shark.
Dusty, a pro surfer exited the waters of Ocean Beach in first round heat of competition, after noticing something big and moving in the water and never came back.
“I was sitting out there and saw something in line up.” Dusty said in the statement. “I have seen dolphins before and that wasn’t dolphin. That was the biggest fin I have seen in my life, and it was right in front of me.”
The shark sighting came few days after 27 year old surfer was bitten by a shark in not too far away Monterrey area.
Anyway, I know Ocean Beach. I surf there regularly. It can be a pretty scary place to surf. Sun almost never comes out of the fog out there and surf is usually big and violent. So, I can relate.
Kelly Slater won the competition. Did he know about the shark sighting the day before right there where he was surfing? Of course he did.
Was he afraid the next day when he won? Of course he was.
Even the surfer, who will tell you, that he is not afraid of sharks is very afraid of them.
Yet, he was in the water competing. And he won the competition.
Kelly Slater and other high performing individuals learned how to conquer their fears.
No, the fear doesn’t go away, It stays. Important is, what you do next.
Don’t let fear paralyze you. The most successful achievements and ventures lead through some scary situations the encounters went through.
The fear will always be there. What you do after is important. Are you going to crawl under the table, or face your fears and win?
It’s with anything in life, if it’s running a marathon, picking up kite surfing, joining a gym, asking for a date, swimming open water competition or quitting your job and starting ghost hunting business. If it feels a little scary, you are on to something. And if you don’t let the fear paralyze you, you will most likely win.
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October 24th, 2011 Milan
Self motivation is and always will be the most important form of motivation.
If I told you, that you either have it or you don’t and there is nothing you can do about it, I would be the negative, unsupportive guy.
But, if you don’t care what I say, you probably have it. You probably are self motivated and you don’t wait for somebody to motivate you.
Self motivation is a great thing to have. In the end it’s all we have. Because it really determines where you are and where you’re heading.
Getting motivated by somebody else rarely works for long time. That’s why you can see full public tennis courts few days after a tennis grand slam final.
People see a celebrated hero win in long 5 sets Mach and they get motivated. They feel like they could be like him too, if they work hard enough.
Unfortunately, this motivation doesn’t last long. Couple of weeks later, tennis courts are empty. Like they were before. And the next time they become busy will be after another slam final.
Only few will last longer and very little will last forever. Those are the ones that are self motivated. And obviously, they become better tennis players and better at anything that they are trying to improve at. They are self motivated.
So don’t wait for somebody to motivate you, motivate yourself. Give it a try. Try different things and see what works. Self motivation matters a lot.
Get self motivated or stay dreadfully average like 99% of people who always quit after few tries.
Self motivation is necessary at getting healthier, loosing weight, learning to play harmonica, getting stronger, learning new language, running a marathon under 4 hours, learning french cooking and everything else. Your life depends on it. You have to find it!
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April 18th, 2011 Milan
I think it is true. It is a pretty scary thing to be dreaming about something dear to your heart and never going for it with a real big force. Realizing somewhere much later in your life that you actually never did that thing, you always wanted to do. You were dreaming about it and thinking what if, but never actually did much to achieve it. And now, it might be too late.
The easy solution to this problem of course is to just do everything you always wanted to do or achieve everything you always wanted to achieve or at least give it a very big try. For that big try you will be forgiven, but for never trying hard enough you will never forgive yourself.
So listen, really listen to yourself. What is that thing you always wanted to achieve or do? Loose 50 pounds? Run marathon under 4 hours? Climb McKinley? Become vegetarian? Get in a perfect shape and health? Collect 100 weird dolls or surf Fiji naked?
Whatever it is. Write it down and than just do it or achieve it. You already know how.
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April 15th, 2011 Milan
That is a very complicated question. My short answer is this:
- Exercise regularly
- Eat healthy diet
- Never stop learning
- Don’t ask for permission
- Create your own map and fallow your own map
- Take a massive action and work hard
- Fallow through
- Help other people to succeed
- Don’t listen and stay away from assholes
- Do something that excites you
- If you are not doing something that excites you, keep looking, don’t settle
- Do things that scares you regularly
- Love nature and animals
Did you notice, that I put regular exercise and good diet on the first 2 places? It’s not an accident. If you don’t do those first 2 things on the list, your health will suffer and you will not have the strength to do the rest. That’s how important they are.
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November 1st, 2010 Milan
The more you love your body, the better you’ll take care of it, the better you’ll be able to enjoy your life.
You love your body, when you don’t put any junk food in it.
You love your body, when you give it enough sleep.
You love your body, when you lift weights regularly.
You love your body, when you do your cardiovascular exercise regularly.
You love your body, when you stretch regularly.
You love your body, when you eat 7 servings of fruits and vegetables every day.
You love your body, when you say “no” to your boss, when he asks you to work on Saturday and instead you spent the day on the beach relaxing.
You love your body, when you give it enough protein.
You love your body when you don’t drink Coke.
You love you body when you don’t eat fries.
It’s all about the love. You love your body, it loves you back and you love your life.
But the opposite is also true too. If you neglect your body and don’t find time to take care of it, and love it, it won’t love you back, and your life will be miserable.
Choose carefully.
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October 25th, 2010 Milan
I don’t have anything against big, hard, solid, muscular, fit asses.
But if your ass and gut is big flabby fat storage, it’s time to get to work.
That’s a warning sign to get you from that ass and do something about it.
Because your health, your energy, your attitude, your performance and your whole life depends on it.
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August 23rd, 2010 Milan
When Anna Kournikova, a 17 year old tennis player with flowing blond hair, reached the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1997, the women tennis craze started in Russia.
It was one of the most watched television events of the year in Russia, partly because of her looks, her age and mainly the exceptional performance.
She became a hero.
The girls in Russia watched the success of young Anna in masses.
They were stunned by her triumph (as was most of the world) and Russian euphoria happened.
At the time when Anna Kournikova was winning, lots of young girls picked up tennis and wanted to be like her.
They got hugely motivated. And that motivation didn’t seem to go away.
Years after, more and more Russian women were ranked in top 100 WTA.
Russian Women tennis players in top 100 WTA:
1998 – 3 – Anna Kournikova included
2001 – 8
2002 – 10
2005 – 15
2006 – 16
The motivation in these case worked exceptionally well. Why?
The need to belong, to associate, is among the most important human motives.
And that’s exactly what worked for Young Russian girls, who wanted to be like Anna. Fit like Anna. Hero like Anna. Pretty like Anna. And they started working hard to achieve that.
Are you lacking motivation to get fitter? To get healthier? To loose weight? Is it hard to keep going because you are loosing motivation?
Look around yourself. Are the people around you fit, lean, strong and active? If they are, you are probably fit too.
You want to belong, to associate with them. You want to be like them.
Are people around you lazy, fat and couch potatoes?
If they are, that could be a reason, that you are not motivated to get fit.
Is there a woman in your gym, work or book club, that is about your age and she looks great, she is lean and she is fit?
So you tell yourself, I am similar to this woman, she is very fit, she looks great. I want to be like her. I want to achieve those things too.
And that’s how motivation happens.
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