The wheel of life: 8 opportunities to accelerate your progress

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Good morning, 66.1ers.

Today’s issue is brought to you by LMNT.

About the other day…

We had an audio issue in Monday’s Q&A episode. I’ve re-recorded it so you can listen here.

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Food for thought:

Usually, your life is going pretty smoothly, except for 1-2 areas. This isn’t to focus on the negative, but it is a tool for helping you identify what is going well in your life and where you can improve.

I encourage you to spend some time with this Wheel of Life and see what adjustments you might make (and what's going well and doesn’t need changing!).

Have fun with it.

And—reply here and sharing what you learned.

I might even share your wisdom in a future issue (with your permission, of course!).

A question for you:

This is an old one, revisited.

Oftentimes—especially in the age of social media—we get in the unhealthy habit of doing things for outside approval.

This is a question I first discovered while leading canoe camping trips during my college years. It goes like this:

“What would you do even if you couldn’t tell anyone about it?”

Apply it to your training, to your travel, to your personal life. If you couldn’t tell anyone you hit the Peloton 3x/week, would you still do it?

If you couldn’t tell anyone about your important-sounding job, would you still do it?

A great recipe for improved mental health is to do more things you’re genuinely interested in and fewer things for outside approval.

Workout of the week:

Jump Squats

A lot like last week’s air squat but…

You jump!

If you don’t do these often, you’re going to feel them tomorrow. Have fun with it.

That’s all for this Wednesday.See you on Saturday.Have fun out there.Marcus

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