Motivation Monday: Cash the Check

AK check

Check for the Purchase of Alaska, October 12, 1868 (source)

Motivation Monday coming to you a bit late today.

I’ve been holed up for the past 2 days planning and organizing for 2011.

I like to sit down at the end of the year and see what I have achieved and what needs improvement. During the year it gets a bit nuts, so my goal then is to just as Dan John says “Keep the goal, the goal.”

This does not always happen and I don’t want to force things without being prepared to pay the consequences.

The good news is that I have a bunch of systems in place now (more coming) that will allow me to keep delivering you the latest and greatest in exercise science for more muscle, more strength, less fat and less pain.

I will have some posts coming up with a review of 2010 and my goals for 2011.

Story time….

The US purchased the area of land known as Alaska now from Russia back on August 1, 1868.  The total cost…… $7.2 million.   People at the time thought it was insane, but history shows it was probably one of the best deals ever done.   For less than 2 cents an acre, the United States acquired nearly 600,000 square miles.

How does this relate?   I will turn it over to Seth Godin (source)

A check in your wallet does you very little good. It represents opportunity, sure, but not action.

Most of us are carrying around a check, an opportunity to make an impact, to do the work we’re capapble of, to ship the art that would make a difference.

No, the world isn’t fair, and most people don’t get all the chances they deserve. There are barriers due to income, to race, to social standing and to education, and they are inexcusable and must fall. But the check remains, now more than ever. The opportunity to step up and to fail (and then to fail again, and to fail again) and to continue failing until we succeed is greater now than it has ever been.

As Martin Luther King Junior spoke about a half a lifetime ago,

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.  Procrastination is still the thief of time.  Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.  The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood — it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, “Too late.”  –Seth Godin

My main goal in 2011is to grow a pair and ship it.

I tend to be a perfectionist on everything.  The massive downside to this is the huge delay, while I am not making a difference.  I have been working on one particular project for well over 3 years.  I have tweaked, tweaked and tweaked again.  I’ve run numbers in the lab.  I’ve read well over 47 research studies on it (no, not just the abstracts off pubmed).  The concept was even presented to DARPA, the military’s elite research division.  Most importantly I’ve tested it on many subjects over months and months with body composition determine by research grade equipment (not skin calipers) to accurately measure lean muscle gain and fat loss.

Still I debate if I am working to make it better to too chicken shit to release it.

The cold hard truth is the later.  I need to cash the check.

Not everyone will like it.  Some will down right hate it.

And that is ok as many more will love it and see a massive benefit.

Only one way to find out.

Everyone has an opportunity to make an impact.

I am willing to fail to succeed.  Are you?

Massive Changes!

Look for some massive changes coming soon!  This includes a new website, a new product, and more documentation on my own training–successes and epic failures too.

As with everything I do, I need to thank you for all the constant support, as you make all of it possible.

Comments

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Rock on

Mike T Nelson

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