Run N' Gunn

The initial feeling of “putting yourself out there” is full of emotion. It’s an elaborate mixture of excitement, scared, anxiety, happiness, and embarrassment. (side note- I know I messed up the tenses there sorry.  side side note- I put the word elixir but replaced with mixture because it felt forced.) Putting yourself out there comes…

Here is a new word of the day. As well as a characteristic I would love to possess. Affable- Pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite. Personal Be someone who is easy to talk to. This is easier said than done, but make effort to be the person you would like to talk to. Someone you would appreciate. Be an affable…

This is an idea from James Altucher. One of four people, who particularly inspired me to blog. He writes 10 ideas a day. Silly, fun, serious… any kind of ideas. He calls it training your idea muscle. The idea is to become an idea machine. I tried to pick up this habit a while back…

When you hear someone make a statement that you do not agree with, do you wait for them to finish their reasoning before you pass judgement? Or do you write them off before you even allow yourself to really take it in and analyze their logic. Sometimes I catch myself just mentally turning off when…

Sometimes we need a bit of a push to get rolling. But we do not always have someone there to push us. Not because we lack people around us but because they do not know of the goals we think of to ourselves. One way to address this issue is to create your own personal…

It’s odd. It’s peculiar. It’s uncommon. It’s cool. It’s what makes you, you. Don’t hide from it. Embrace it.

Sometimes all it takes is a deeper desire to do better to have better results. So in attempt to be better, I have been making a conscious effort to do so. In training I think about executing all the steps independently and deliberate. For me that is during the big three of squat, bench, and…

Sometimes. Sometimes you get angry. Sometimes you get bummed. You’re allowed to. For 15 minutes. Then move on. Pizza. Pizza has 8 slices. Those slices can be sliced up into smaller slices. You can share one slice, drop a slice, lose a slice, sell a slice, eat a slice. Don’t ever focus too hard on one slice…

“Perfectionism is the ego’s wicked demand. It denies us the pleasure of process. Instead, we are told by the ego that we must have instantaneous success— and our perfectionism believes it, lock, stock and barrel.”- Julia Cameron A common theme of mine is incremental progress. Incremental progress is derived from the process. So often we…