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When You Stop Chasing Opinions You Attract The Wise

Opinion Vs. Laws

 

In this day and age in training, nutrition and business everyone has their opinion of what will work and what wont. Social media is a festering living organism that gives everyone a voice on topics they have no idea about. It makes it worse when we have social media “celebrities “ that have quite following pushing products, opinions and philosophies.

 

Here is some advice for anyone wanting to learn more about any topic on planet earth, if someone is trying to explain to you a concept, model or framework and he or she use end reference e.g. “This is the only way it can work” or “ if you apply it in this way it will never work”. Tread carefully if you’re taking it on board.

 

If this doesn’t land with you it’s ok, just recognize that the outcome you want to achieve has 294874 (literally that many) ways to get there, some roads may be tougher than others but you will arrive if you utilise a few LAWS along the way.

 

The Law of hourly rate.

 

This can be called a law because its always happening whether you like it or not, the question is whether you are taking advantage of it. You seem to like electricity although you have no idea how it actually works. Think about this, if you were your own boss and you were being paid for every hour in the day would you still have a job? To put it bluntly what are you doing every single hour of every single day taking tiny steps toward your ultimate outcome?

 

Now this has been said over and over but here is something that will make it hit home. What if a professional bodybuilder just an hour a day gave him/herself a “break” from his/her personal legend where they sat on the couch watching TV eating ice cream? Here’s the worst part of this situation, the sitting and eating can be rectified but now this person has lost an hour where he/she was not thinking about and feeling what standing on stage in first place is like. This cannot be regained. It sounds ridiculous for a bodybuilder to do that so why are you doing it? Maybe you don’t know your ultimate outcome? Here’s a start, what is that one thing you do that all of life’s stressors and worries go out the window? Start there.

For those chasing an outcome or a result you may be waiting on others or most definitely navigating some challengers, your going through hell your on the perfect path if you give up your back at square 1 with nothing. When your stuck on the waiting game and you feel you are doing everything you can. Turn to yourself and learn more about you, see yourself achieving whatever it is you want, learn to ask beautiful questions, act as if you have already achieved it, and pull others along with you.

 

The Law of Gratitude

 

When was the last time you sat and focused on everything you have, everything you have created and everything you have achieved? All of the best leaders and athletes in the world do not operate for self-satisfaction. Ask any of the top athletes what it meant for them to win. “ I had to win this one for my team mate, for the coach, for my family” how many times have you seen an athlete win the whole way through a tournament only to fall in the final bout? It’s a pattern and it goes like this. Lets take a tennis player for example

“ I have an opportunity to share my talents and show my team what it means to me for them helping me out this whole preparation” this psychology = smart decision-making, smart strategies and patience. When the player gets to the final match

“ What could I do with all the winnings, people will see me as a champion, I will be respected in the sport” this psychology is extremely internal and selfish, this = rushed decisions, short-term gains, anxiety.

The player loses the match.

 

It doesn’t make sense on any level to receive more of what you do not express gratitude towards. If you are wanting/needing more clients be there 100% and give everything you can to the clients you have currently, they are putting food in your mouth. Feel grateful for every dollar you have, every chance you get to train.

 

Try this.

If you wanted to be grateful for 20 things what would they be? Write them down and notice how much good you have. Spend 5 minutes expressing gratitude before your next meal and see how good the food tastes even if it is chicken and broccoli.

 

It’s so easy to sit back and find things we are not happy with I challenge you to challenge yourself and see how much good you can find, that’s the magic.

more fun things.

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/05/a-good-sign-youre-just-about-to-break-through-is-when-it-seems-nothing-is-happening.html

 

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/05/why-you-may-be-suffering-at-workchoosing-rewards-over-environment.html

 

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/04/spirituality-for-performacne-tactical-breathing.html

 

Nat

 

 

 

A Good Sign You're Just About To Break Through Is When It Seems Nothing Is Happening

The life cycle of Exponential Tech, Tech is something i MUST get better at so here is something very relevant and history has a funny way of repeating itself

1. Digitalisation- once something becomes zeros and ones the growth curve is exponential 
2. Deception - there will always be s slow growth period where people will dismiss it and the concept deceives people.
3.Disruption- people who are resistant to change will have their feathers ruffled
4.Demonetisaition- making money in tech will be what can you give for free that others pay for?
5.Dematerialisation- take away the expenses of materials for the digital world
6.Democritisation- Complete accessibility.

From Steven Kotler,

I sit here and use a free app with free wifi, free audio, free conversation platform, free marketing delivering content and hopefully something that you can take a think about. Maybe save you some money/ time or give you a clearer direction. All extremely valuable.

 

we are all suckers of instant gratification whats it costing you?

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/05/why-you-may-be-suffering-at-workchoosing-rewards-over-environment.html

Chase exposure and trial by fire

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/04/a-deeper-observation-of-high-performers-what-are-you-missing-out-on.html

 

 

4 Key Elements When Starting a Training Facility

 

 

I keep hearing all these gym start stories about people who sound like they were living in a third world country when they opened their gym. Here are some of the classic lines

 

“I had to sleep in my gym for the first 3 months”

 

“We never put the lights on”

 

“ I was eating tuna and rice for weeks and weeks”

 

“ I nearly lost the gym because of un paid bills”

 

“I had to remortgage the house”

 

What the actual f%^& where you doing then? Clearly these people put themselves in un reasonably risky position. Do not get me wrong when you take a risk there is no better way to get you up early and going hard but what’s the point of these stories? Because its wrapped as “inspiration” are we supposed to think “oh my god, that sounds terrible but look at you now making SOME money and your lights are on “ ….do these stories make people excited? Ummm No!

 

Its so ridiculous and amusing, some gym owners might get a bit out of joint and say “well you don’t know what its like!” and they would be right I don’t know what its like because my gym turned a profit the first week it was open. Since day 1 we were having so much fun and create so much energy around the gym that it was infectious. I would go home at a reasonable hour and have time to play with my dogs, cook dinner and get in some down time either reflecting, writing or thinking and not in the noble pretentious way in my personalized library where I have many leather bound books [Ferrell] but in a mans way on the toilet. A quote from my business partner and me “ A man does his best thinking on the toilet, between clients “

 

So why do people feel the need to share such stories?

 

Because it fulfills a human need inside them! The story is not for the audience. It’s a selfish way of gaining some significance. “Look how hard I had it but look at me now”

 

Currently I’m sitting at a market and its early, people are slowly wandering in with bed hair and both hands double-parked with Coffee. I can hear a fresh juice maker ticking over as it crushes oranges and the crackle of a barbeque browning chicken skewers. There is a tall guy with a well-groomed beard, very stylish slick hair and a tight Hawaiian shirt selling “raw treats” he looks miserable. Next to him is a greased up hot plate with fat German sausages trying not to explode and a vender with a cheeky smile on his face. I’m over looking this interesting mess en scene actively trying not to laugh at the image of a gym owner cross-legged between the squat rack, in the dark, eating tuna in spring water because the flavored ones are too expensive but fuck it because he’ll die by the iron and he has 22inch arms. The German sausage guy is in his element.

 

I digress,

 

Here’s some real inspiration for people in limbo trying to decide whether to open a gym or not.

1. If you’re already in the industry put all your efforts into gaining a reputation for getting a result number one. Another way to get people to listen to you is do not put other gyms or professionals down, do not gossip or talk shit, do not complain or make excuses.

2. Calibrate yourself honestly with this tool

How do you see yourself? How do others see you? And do they match? If not get that aligned

       3.   Peel back the layers of the reasoning why you want to open a gym and find the core, if    your thinking goes straight to money, say goodbye to every cent you have. If your thinking is “I just want to help people” again say goodbye to all your money not because its false but because it lacks detail. The real reason is emotional it should either bring tears or give you Goosebumps and the only way to feel this is if the reason you started is because of something bigger then just yourself.

4. Keep your structure and services simple with 3 options; less is more in this case. It appears that having multiple payment and service options confuses and makes people question what your about when just because someone comes into the gym in the middle of the day they pay less? (Off peak & peak times)

 

Hodges

 

 

 

Spirituality For Performance & Tactical Breathing

Spirituality for performance and tactical breathing.

 

Only only a few things will determine the constructs of your reality or “the” reality depending on your beliefs. One will be your intention, what do you intend on doing or being or feeling or having?? The second will be what you focus on, is it one thing or multiple things? There have been numerous accounts in which peoples contribution to the world have been overlooked because they have had more then ONE focus and their name in the history books has fallen by the way side. If your mind is giant cloud of seemingly endless “stuff” how many things are you trying to focus on? Using lasers as a metaphor…all its power concentrated on 1 point will cut through anything in due time.if the forces of the laser was hitting separate components then there would NEVER be a breakthrough.

 

It’s only in the down time that you can really grasp anything remotely spiritual. When everything is traveling exactly how you want it then please continue doing that and being happyJ there will always be troughs and unpleasant surprises. In these times is when we can discover our true impermanent s and irrelevance that we are here for the merest moment. It is only when we can wake up to the reality that there will be billions of people after us and before us that we know nothing and that “self” goes out the window. …This is when you can leave your blueprint on this world to experience all the joys and wonder this existence has to offer.

 

We all will encounter very large and very small challenges during our time here but the solution to all existing challenges does not live in the same atmosphere. We are conditioned to experience reality through the extremely limited 5 senses. Touch, taste, smell, sight, sound. What would your experience be if you maintained the 5 senses but removed all notions of thought? …. Weird? Wonderful? Liberating? I don’t know. Keeping in mind that we are creatures living on this planet with a s%^& load of other creatures that have insane abilities like sonar, light recognition, frequency and vibration recognition ….so what information, data and other forces are we potentially missing out on that could be the answer to that irritability you have been feeling? This is my version of spirituality.

 

I don’t choose to believe in God because it places a symbol on something that means a million different things to different people. I do believe we are connected to all living things, pretty hard to deny when we are literally made of the same 4 key components J so why can we not have access to all phenomena? Truth is we can but we are taught to be obedient, compliant, and play by the rules…. we get rewarded for the above which is a nice way of saying THNK YOU FOR FOLLOWING THE MASSES AND CONTINUING THE MARCH OF MEDOCRITY. Anything described by science has to travel through the 5 senses to be understood by our very limited version of reality and not to mention the bias and opinions of the scientist conducting the research (YouTube Neil Degrasse Tyson BRILLIANT). On the thinking of NDT he notes something very thought provoking. We are only 1% different to common apes and it seems as though we are worlds and worlds ahead. What if there existed another consciousness that was 1% higher than us?? Do you think they would want to be involved with us? With no trust in the political parties with any TRUE leaders, no trust in what we get fed with on television and a constant state of “threat” with the economy and “terrorism” hahahaha nope because it’s a train wreck

 

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/02/10-overlooked-components-of-powerlifitng-preparation.html

 

You Cant Measure Your Genetics!! Stop Using It As An Excuse

Nothing is Genetic

The last 8 years of my teen hood, hearing children fall trap to the dogmatic thought pattern of society, I soon learnt people use genetics as their excuse for anything they failed at, lacked of or unfortunately were ‘cursed’ by. I hate cancer, and it is not for the fact that it costs millions of lives - more, it’s the mediocre attitude and excuses it causes within people and how even after self-inflicted actions, people look at a disease as if they did not cause it. I absolutely am not a fan of it.

“My dad has it, so I am bound to get it,” this is something my neighbour used to tell me as she drank her can of Coke for the 3^rd time in the day in response to me saying “You’re going to get diabetes, hell you may even get cancer….” This attitude still exists in her unfortunately.

What we don’t understand about cancer is it is in no way, AT ALL, genetic. There may be some form of string settled and carried through the family chain yes, but in no way is anyone deemed to have cancer, or even diabetes. We live in a world where greenhouse gases that are toxic to our body increase exponentially every day, chemicals are pumped in the atmosphere, ground and water we all breathe, eat and drink from. We live in a society where more emphasis is placed on one’s job, bank balance and wealth, than their health alone. The nutrition we feed our minds is worse than the nutrition we feed our mouths.

Cancer is defined as a malignant tumor or malignant neoplasm. These cells invade and spread in the body, eventually killing the function of the part it encompasses. Hence why once it goes to the brain or blood, most individuals lives are taken, as their function is immediately ceased. These cells that spread are in simple, a conglomeration of toxins; toxins that should not be in the body and elementally are not fit to live inside the body. The elements only get there one way – self-inflicted. These elemental toxins are not born with, as babies we are born pure. The only way it can be transferred is if the blood of the babies host is poisoned with cancerous cells. However, if someone up the line in the family tree had cancer, it does not mean you will have cancer!

The moment you smoke a cigarette you are inhaling tar, ammonia, toluene, acetone, nicotine, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, metals (lead, nickel, arsenic and cadmium), pesticides, methoprene, benzene and naphthalene. These are just some of the major chemicals you find, which are all industrial grade chemicals, things that should NOT be in the body; elements that are toxic to the human condition.
When you drink a glass of alcohol you are ingesting ethyl alcohol i.e. ethanol, a chemical compound typically found in the fuel of drag cars. That’s right, you are ingesting a chemical compound that not only is extremely combustible, but inherently not for the purpose of drinking and too, is elementally toxic to the human condition.

… In Australia at least 10 Litres of alcohol (3% – 40% alcohol) is consumed per capita per year, and 1,034 cigarettes are consumed per year per capita in Australia. Though they may not be the biggest numbers in the world, it does make sense why Australia is not only statistically the most obese country in the world, but also, densely populated with cancerous individuals.

Not only is it the rarity of disease we blame genetics for, but it is the exceptional talent of rare individuals we place genetics as the excuse and answer. The world’s best body builders such as Phil Heath, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronnie Coleman, the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt and the world’s best basketball player Michael Jordan all have one thing in common – they all are excused by the public for having ‘freak genetics.’

Genetics is just an excuse to hide ones insecurities, to allow them to be okay with the fact they are not changing and giving their 100 %. Humans naturally rather stay stagnant, it is part of our biological makeup - avoid pain, seek pleasure. Emotionally we know that if we choose to not change, we will avoid pain. Instead of being the person to challenge themselves, humans will automatically create an excuse. It is only after immense pain and learning do we understand that nothing is esoteric or illusive, everything is a result of action created by us.

It is our choice to quit smoking so that our lungs can begin healing.

It is our choice to cease the daily beer we ingest the moment we walk inside our homes so we can begin healing our organs, but also, our mind.

It is our choice to give up the box of chocolates daily that is costing our body’s future.

It is our choice to go for that morning walk daily so we can ensure we are 100% before embarking on our day ahead

It is our choice to sacrifice the Christmas day to be with our family and instead, serve our country so we can serve the peace we all desire one day.

It is our choice to give up the pay cheque in order to chase the dream we gave up on, so that we can challenge the common attitude of society.

Genetics may be the reason why you look the way you do but it is by no means your destiny – nothing is genetic and every being has the ability and right to mould their future to whatever they want; physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Strong rant and more below.

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/03/4-reasons-why-your-goals-left-you-empty.html

http://nathanielhodges.blogs.com/my-blog/2016/05/4-key-elements-when-starting-a-training-facilility-.html

Hodges

4 Reasons Why Your Goals Left You Empty

 

Among all achievements there is a point where it was merely an idea, a fleeting thought or deep desire. High achievers always set goals and it’s basically a massive target with a bull’s eye in the middle. There are multiple frame works that help you layout your goals eg SMART or From X to Y by When but no matter what your desire is there always to be a trade off. Regardless of the size of your goal what are you willing to trade to see this goal out? Time? Money? Sometimes people will even risk their life. Do you think the latter of the trade offs is ridiculous? Maybe, but if your life is on the line what are the chances of reaching the outcome? Very high.

I am not saying by any means that you need to risk it all to achieve but what it’s showing is that having an emotional connection to the goal will drive behavior in the right direction. I urge all my clients in the gym to make their goals so attractive that the mere thought of what it would be like to have this outcome has enough power to PULL them in the right direction. You don’t want to have to push and push day in day out because it will feel like everything is against you. What if the outcome was so attractive its force PULLED you towards it and everyone conspired with you to see you achieve it? What could you do?

Have you ever gone through challenges, hurdles and roadblocks but kept your vision alive and real with enough conviction that you followed through and eventually enjoyed the destination only to stand there and ask yourself “ is this it”? This happens more times than not with people and I can put it down to a few reasons.

1. You didn’t realise how much sacrifice you needed to see it through?
2. You didn’t accept help because you thought you could do it on your own?
3. You sacrificed other people for your personal gain?
4. You didn’t bring anyone with similar goals along on the ride with you.

Nothing good comes from the person who achieves high but leaves a trail of destruction. Besides the personal satisfaction gained from achieving in any area, a far more fulfilling and longer lasting image of yourself in the eyes of others is this analogy. When you climb a mountain it should only be for 2 reasons. One, to see the next mountains peak and the other is to show others how to climb the same mountain you did…end of story.

Without applying this simple strategy you will feel a little something was missing even when you achieve everything you had set out to achieve.

Nat