Passion: The X-Factor

20 April 2007 at 12:18 pm (Life, Workout)

Everyone knows that to succeed at anything in life you need a very healthy dose of hardwork, and more hardwork. But what most people don’t realise is that hardwork is often not enough, and when they fail to succeed they blame everything and everyone around them. Yet all they needed was a good serving of passion for their goal. You can usually tell from the terminology that they use. Let’s take trying to get healthy as an example. Those who lack the passion go to the gym to “workout”, those who are really passionate hit the weights to “train”.

“Workout” people dread to go to the gym, and can’t wait for it to be over. They find excuses to miss a workout, and get distracted easily during their sessions. Not surprisingly, they also do not get much results and blame their genetics, the program, blah, blah blah.

“Training” people just can’t wait to get to the gym. Personal Records (PRs) are what they try to get most of the time they are in the gym, whether that means more weight on the bar, squeezing one extra rep, doing more in less time, going faster or longer than before. They are often ready to learn and try new things, and aren’t afraid to find and correct their weaknesses. They are the people who often stay motivated to work hard, and are usually the ones who end up getting results.

The example I give might be about exercise, but it’s very much applicable in all other aspects on life, like studies and work.

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2 April 2007 at 8:31 pm (Life)

300. Wow, it was just fantastic cinematography and fantastically choreographed violence. And man were those guys ripped! And no matter how much digital retouching that can be done, you still need to have something to retouch to begin with! They worked hard to get in shape, and I mean HARD! Just check out Gym Jones and this article. It’s kind of Crossfit type workout. If you wanna give it a go, check out Crossfit and start there. It’ll make you strong, fast and fantastically well conditioned if you keep on it. Oh and not to mention it will make you look great as well (as long as your diet decent)!

Daylight savings time has come into effect a couple of weeks ago. The days are longer, it’s sunnier, and it’s definitely getting warmer. In short, it’s almost swimwear weather! Are you doing anything to get ready for the beach? If you are not, why not? I mean now you have more sunlight to go out and just play around in the sun man! Be more active! Not only will you start to look better, as a bonus you’ll be healthier!

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