Week 5 and 6
Week 5 and 6
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Exercises
Exercises
Do 10 reps of the Week 3 and 4 exercises and 10 reps of each exercise below. Walk for the remaining time to equal one hour.
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Inspiration: Becoming YOU
Inspiration: Becoming YOU
The new you will require that you make some serious changes. You'll need to change your mind, your thoughts, your beliefs, your words and you know, you've been warned that it isn't easy. The videos and articles included for the next two weeks will give you ideas for changing your words and reframing 'failures' as opportunities but first, I have some advice of my own!
People commonly attempt a challenge and think ‘I can’t,but the truth is “I DON’T WANT TO….." I challenge you to think of something that you CAN’T do.
I can’t go to Paris….You can if you want to sell everything you own, rob someone, beg for money, etc. The truth is this - for moral reasons, you don’t want to.
I can’t go back to school….You can but maybe it would require that you quit your job which would cause you to lose your home. You can do it, but for financial reasons, you don’t want to.
Using I don’t want to is empowering. It shows you aren’t a victim of your circumstances, but instead, have made a decision.
In addition, when communicating with others, you can be more effective when you use phrases like 'I prefer...', 'It might be better...' instead of 'You never...', 'You should....' or 'You can't....'. When you use absolute verbs like never, always, can, or can't then you come off as overbearing and judgy.
Words matter! Words build your thoughts, which create the stories inside yourself that you believe about the world. Change your words and you'll change the world.
Failure Sucks
Failure Sucks
Failure is a part of life and there is no avoiding it. It's easy to believe that with the right plan, you can avoid the discomfort of fear and failure, but that just isn't true. Like the image depicts, there will be lots of difficulties. Accept it and prepare for them.
Case Study: Liz Murray's Story
Case Study: Liz Murray's Story
She grew up on the meanest street of New York. Her parents spent their welfare checks on cocaine and heroine, and she and her sister ate ice cubes and once shared a tube of toothpaste for dinner. She remembers her mother stealing her birthday money, selling the television, and even the Thanksgiving turkey a church had given them, to scrape together money to score a hit of coke. Liz would turn up to school lice-ridden and was bullied for being smelly and scruffy. She eventually dropped out.
Her mother's mantra was "one day life is going to be better", then she would spend all day throwing up and being nursed by her daughter or slumped in withdrawal, arms tracked with needle marks. When Liz was 15 her mother revealed that she was HIV-positive and had Aids. She died not long after and was buried in a donated wooden box. Her father could no longer pay the rent and so they were homeless at 16. At 17 she knew it was now or never and she returned to school while she slept and studied in the subways. A teacher mentored her and when they went on a field trip to Harvard, she decided that she could do it. She applied for a scholarship and ended up graduating from Harvard.
Philosophical Thoughts
Philosophical Thoughts
The first video to the right has a lot of science terminology and may not be interesting to all people. A background in science and a general understanding of the atom would be helpful in finding the contents of this video interesting.
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