Taking it easy…

Your brain wants to take it easy. Your brain understands that it uses a whole bunch of energy when you make it think, so it tries to avoid exactly that whenever it can. Taking it easy makes sense most of the time.

Your muscles want to take it easy too. Your muscles want to avoid exertion whenever they can. They know, when you need them to perform, it’s going to take a lot of gas to get them going.

Your brain and your muscles, naturally, want to take it easy. However, when you need them to perform, you would like to know that they’ve been “working it,” so to speak. Otherwise when you find yourself in a moment of truth, the brain will be just a half second slow in responding. And, the muscles just a fraction of a second slow in responding when you send them the signal to “floor it.”

This is why we practice pushing our clients to think like they’re in a crisis before they actually are. This is why we push our clients to build their CORE before they’re actually in over their heads. We understand that their brains and their braun are basically lazy, energy conserving systems. These systems have to be built to lean against their tendency to save energy at all cost. There is nothing naturel about this process.

Excellence will require that you lean against your tendencies. It won’t feel good to push your brain in directions it doesn’t naturally lean. It won’t feel natural to put your physical system in pain when it felt perfectly fine just relaxing itself on the nice, yellow couch. Taking it easy comes naturally. It just does. Remember, your second nature is the one you want.

Building it won’t be easy…