Baby stepping…

I am baby stepping. It sucks. Makes me feel like an infant, again. Very frustrating, to say the least. Why?

Because it’s much harder to unlearn than to learn.

I’m baby stepping into deep, belly breathing. Never knew how shallow my chest breathing. Fact. Also learning to properly position/engage my core when doing simple lifts of light weights. Learning to position my feet properly when squatting and engaging my lat’s when pulling up on a bar (pulling down now, actually). Been doing ‘em improperly for decades upon decades. Been wrapping myelin around these improper moves so they could be done without thinking. Now I’m thinking and over thinking as I try to build new pathways with zero myelin around ‘em. My gosh is this hard.

So, leader, remember this. Anytime you attempt to break bad habits, remember to focus your attention on building better ones. We don’t really unlearn bad habits. We simply begin to build better ones. It takes a long time for the new habits to feel good, much less to be able to do them without thinking. It hurts the head and ego, to say the least.

Lots of learning here. Go slow with those you teach. They’ve likely been doing something improperly (with decent results) for longer than you know. Slow down. Reflect. Write. Baby step. Slowly. Damn.

Live hard. Love harder…