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The PPSC and Humility

There is something positively contagious about learning something new. An impulse to open up and share new knowledge with the world. Everyone should know about X, and there is no reason you should not apply X, immediately! Flash forward to when you open your mouth and tell someone (my wife) and you come out sounding nerdier than Steve Urkel, shoving his glasses back onto the bridge of his nose.

I probably have those pants and suspenders tucked away somewhere in my house.

Today, I talk about my experience learning the tenets of the Pain free Performance Specialist Certification.

Learning about shit I care about. I stopped in at an event in Kaysville Utah.

Something that has been my forte for a long time. Fitness is my forte. The human body and anatomical stuff. It’s physiology and a depth to understanding human movement.

I wish I could tell you how many continuing education events I have been to. And I’m afraid to guess how much money has been spent on attending these seminars/certifications/continuing education. Not that I hate spending $$ on events, but there have been so many ‘meh’ events and seminars, that they all end up looking and feeling similar to past events and it can feel like a waste.

GUT CHECK TIME.

Recently, I’ve been walking into these places feeling like my knowledge, related to strength and conditioning, is sufficiently full. An air of confidence after spending so much time diving into material, putting fitness into practice and working with clients. And after attending so many events, I can’t tell you how many times I have been taught how to dynamically warm up or asked how to define mobility (hint: flexibility does not equal mobility). It can be exhausting and tiring.

At the same time you can be reminded, that you know nothing and to keep working to fill up your proverbial glass.

The PPSC was a great experience. I showed up and fell into a group of 15-ish people in attendance.

With my lack of knowing anything about the course material, I came out of it better understanding their systemized approach to warmup sequencing (day 1) and baseline recipes for developing exercise programs (day 2).

I’ll start from the top.

As a trainer, developing exercise programs can be time intensive. Especially if you sit there, pouring over spreadsheets, combining the perfect testing protocols into a fully customized program developed specifically for a particular client.

We develop a person’s exercise program around theoretically optimizing physical, mental and emotional potential while training in an environment that decreases injury risk.

The PPSC’s primary message was pirmarily to empower people. Not just clients, but anyone and everyone who wants to improve their health (GAINZ). I connected tightly to this mantra because my belief is that a major role of a fitness professional is to empower clients to expand their own success. Not to beat them down. Not to limit them. But to fully appreciate the expanding depth of movement a person can achieve. Whether your goal is to get stronger, leaner, put on weight, lose weight, lift heavier, walk faster, tie your shoes again, jump higher….whatever your desire, a true professional will guide and believe in you, until they are proven wrong. And being the weirdo I am, I tend to appreciate the failure as much as the success. Because that teaches patience. You say, ‘I can’t’, I say ‘Not yet’.

There is a clear difference between the role a fitness professional and someone who writes workouts. And you can FEEL the difference!

When developing a program for an individual, fit pros typically develop an exercise split, with a particular training goal for each day. Diagnostically, the PPSC does a good job in reminding us to keep our day’s key performance indicator(KPI) in mind.

Let’s say today, we train lower body. And in training lower body, we develop our program around Susie’s squat. Our Key Performance Indicator(Again, KPI) is her squat pattern. And coming into each session, it is our responsibility to get you focused, tuned in and prepared to crush today’s KPI, despite your best effort to distract, confuse or stall(some clients are better at it than others).

After we assess a client and develop a program, there are a few things we discover that could hold the potential of a client back from improving a movement. These are called linchpins(eg, in Susie’s squat pattern, she tends to round her back as she approaches the ground). The linchpin is the biggest limitation to a client’s KPI (In coaching up Susie, it might be that she needs to discover how to brace during her squat).

The linchpin gets as much attention as it needs as it relates to that day’s training goal. The most attention is served in relating whether the pattern demonstrated is good enough to train that day’s KPI.

Another concept was the Pillar. The pillar is a symbol. When looking at a pillar, there is a top, bottom and middle. In anatomical terms, it is a combination of the shoulders, the spine and the hips. The top and bottom of a pillar relates to a person’s shoulders and hips. The midsection of the pillar, is then related directly to the spine.

Shoulders and hips are the top and bottom of the pillar, the spine is the middle!

The PPSC dives deep into pillar integrity. We were taught bracing techniques in primal movement patterns, functional strength patterns and it was beat into us so much that we were not thinking about it by the end of the weekend. It was the expectation.

Pillar importance: With movement in the spine, come leaks in strength and power. In a baseball swing, your hips and feet transfer power up your kinetic chain, and your spine serves as a bridge for power expression. As this concept was introduced, the crowd was met with demonstrations of pillar maintenance (4 pt and 6 pt crawling, dead bugging, planking, squatting, hinging, etc.). It became a staple for correction. It was so ubiquitous and overarching that I began repeating the phrase over, and over, and over, upon my first day of training sessions post-seminar.

This was only the tip of the iceberg. It was looking at the dessert on neighboring tables at a restaurant instead of looking at the menu before eating dinner. To me, this in itself was a hell of a reminder of why I fell into this stuff. I love learning this stuff and it helped reignite my flame.

I’m not sure how long it will take to dive in, but if you’ve made it this far, congratulations! Because you give a shit about nerdy exercise stuff.

In subsequent posts, I’m going to dive deeper into day 1 and day 2.

A teaser for Day 1:

I’ll dive into the PPSC’s 6-phase dynamic warmup pre-training sequence. A sequence of warmup that amps you up and readies you to get a swell swoll session in, lasting 10-16 minutes per session!

The six phases of warmup:

Phase 1 – Self myofascial release
Phase 2 – Bi-phasic positional stretching
Phase 3 – Corrective Based movement
Phase 4 – Stability based activation
Phase 5 – Foundational Based activation
Phase 6 – Central Nervous System Stimulation

Thanks for letting me dump some knowledge.

Peace like geese,

Mike Goose

Why Weight Loss?

There was a morning you woke up, looked in the mirror and decided you didn’t like what you saw. You grab the extra little flab between your thumb and forefinger, wishing for it to magically disappear.

You step on the scale, disappointed, as the number stares at you like some kind of toddler taunting you with a lollipop in hand. Nagging, constantly.

You set a weight loss goal. You need to get back to your high school weight, or your college weight, or the weight you were when you got married.

A lot of the times, this weight loss goal is not really tied to anything more than a feeling.

Sure, BMI numbers mean something for health.

And so does a particular bodyfat.

But I always drive the proverbial car of self-exploration a little deeper.

Why do you want your weight to be at that number? Why is it that number?

Is it because you FELT great at that time in your life?

Is it because you felt like you LOOKED great at that time in your life?

Even at my leanest, my perception of self was that I was not even close to optimal. I had too much flab here, there wasn’t defined enough, blah blah blah. I was far more critical of myself at the time when I could see veins in my abs than I am today.

Today I am proud to be 80% fit, 20% dad.

The intent of my message today is to really assess your why. Why do you want to weigh a certain number? What does that number mean to you? Does it mean health risk reduction? Do you feel like life was easier living when the number was lower? Or do you connect that number to something a little deeper?

Make your why more powerful than the pain of pushing away your obstacles.

I’ve seen hundreds of people lose thousands of pounds. I would be lying if I said that none of them gained any back. The thing is with weight loss or weight gain as a goal, it never goes away.

Be brave and dive a little deeper.

Give yourself a REASON to skip the drive thru.

Give yourself a REASON to wake up and get your 45 minute walk in.

Give yourself a REASON to improve the way you talk to yourself.

Because everyday you CAN wake up and marvel at your body. The bones, the blood, the structure, hell, even the fact that you are conscious and reflective upon your own goal is a damn miracle. You can look at yourself in the mirror and be proud of the person you are. That reflection is the summation of a lifetime of experience wrapped up in one amazing human body.

And you deserve to give yourself a damn pat on the back.

Peace like geese,

Mike goose

You Have Two Brains

Your body is complex. It’s a wonderful array of systems, working together to help you fulfill the needs to sustain life. The very fact that you are reading this, processing it and (hopefully) understanding these words speaks to how amazing YOU are.

The various systems within your body work together to make you the person you are. And there is still a ton that we don’t understand.

What if I told you that your body had more than just the brain in your head. You (sort of) have a brain in your gut too.

The Enteric nervous system (ENS) is your second brain.

The ENS is a system of neurons that regulate gut function.

There are over 100 million neurons within the ENS. That is, five times the number of neurons in your spinal cord.

The enteric nervous system works hand in hand with the brain. It has also been demonstrated to work independently of the brain.

>90% of the body’s serotonin comes from the ENS (neurotransmitter).

>50% of the body’s dopamine comes from the ENS (neurotransmitter).

You read that right. Your body releases dopamine when you are feeling happy in your belly.

The ENS is sensitive to your body’s short term needs. It interacts with your brain to control catecholamines (epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine) to effect motility, digestion and localized muscle movements.

Common ENS diseases and maladies are tied in very closely with Central nervous system disorders. One instance is Parkinson’s Disease. As the neurons in the gut become effected by the disease there is evidence of gastrointestinal dysfunction.

Another disease, Irritable bowel syndrome, is laden with complications related to bowel motility, pain, bloating and irritation.

Not only does the ENS help with digestion and normal body functioning, the addition of probiotics via supplementation worked well in reducing stress-related depression by stimulating serotonin in patients with stress-related depression.

So with all of this information, I don’t know what you can do. But know that there is an amazing connection between you and your gut. There is an endless amount of information to digest (pun intended) about your body and understanding the ENS will give us a more clear understanding in improving the human condition!

Racquetball + Fitness = Anthony

Finished up a bit ago with a client who has…survived Covid. I say survive rather than thrive because the mental game behind his training has been STOLEN from him. Not in the sense that he caught covid and nearly died. But the whole ‘Normal’ thing. Things have changed a bit from the beginning of the year, if you haven’t noticed.

Let’s backup a minute.

In the beginning, there was this guy who LOVED racquetball.

He lived and died for the game.

And he was also a computer programmer, video game aficionado and grower of hydroponics (lettuce and tomatoes).

He started off as this guy with poor posture and a meticulous mind. His speed was ok, his power/strength were alright and his conditioning had room to improve. He had 20 pounds to lose. When we first met, his primary objective was to crack the top 100 in the USA racquetball rankings.

When he told me his goal, I was all in. From that moment, I knew this dude was going to be fun to train. His motivation and drive came from a place of bettering himself. He’s the first person to tell you how insanely difficult can be to exercise for purpose. And maybe that’s why he keeps hiring me. But I’d like to think it’s the progress he’s made (currently #65 in the rankings!).

With that said, it’s been almost two years since Anthony started training and I can honestly say I’m even more excited today to get back to training with him than I was two years ago when we first began.

He is stronger, leaner, faster and more explosive. He has seen the benefit of increasing cardio capacity (and even will run because there IS carryover to sport!). He has become more consistent and ready to make changes in his training on a regular basis. And he always has a nice meme or comic to share 🙂

With that said, we reevaluated today and saw some serious changes in performance that he’s too humble to scream from the rooftops.

Here is a small list of improvements he has made in the last 3 months (DURING THE PANDEMIC):

Increased broad jump by 5 inches
Increased single leg broad jump on each side by 4 and 4.5 inches
Increased grip strength by 7 pounds
Increased max number of chinups from 4 to 10+
Increased cardiovascular capacity
Increased running capacity
Decreased resting heart rate
Decreased bodyfat by 2% in the last 3-4 weeks
Down 4 pounds in the last 3-4 weeks

That’s all objective. Beyond these numbers, all I see is more dedication to his craft. And room for more growth. We’ve got our ultimate goal of climbing up the rankings some more in racquetball, but right now I’ve got nothing but respect for someone who has stayed as dedicated throughout this lull we are all experiencing together!

I realized I learned more about racquetball and training people for racquetball than I ever could have without his insistence on sticking with me throughout his journey. I’m excited to dive deeper into the game and fine tune his game, together.

Thanks Anthony!

I Run Because

You strap on your shoes. Lace them up from the bottom to top. Making sure your socks are nice and smooth to reduce the blister risk.

Step outside and turn on your distance tracking/speed tracking app. Thumb through previous runs and set a target for today’s run.

With the headphones blaring, you get started.

The jogging begins. And you remember the first time you went out for a run. In this moment, you realize you’ve grown. Previously riddled with anxiety and wanting to finish quickly, your mentality has shifted to finding a pace. The drive to pound the pavement fast has all but subsided. You still want to finish quickly, but you also realize that what used to be seen as a chore, has become enjoyable. You enjoy the grind of breaking through the first mental block.

And here it comes!

A half mile later, your body begins to resist.

Your breathing rate increases and your body starts to fight, a bit.

There’s a slight uphill and your brain tells you to take the easy way out. You want to turn around. You’re not that far from home. You want to walk back.

But you persist.

You put one foot in front of the other. Tonight you sleep in your bed.

You slow your pace as a means to catch your breath. You surprise yourself, you’re still running. Yet, you’re recovering.

And all the sudden, you’re back in your own headspace. A place nobody can take from you. You are cruising the block, thinking about the day. About your kid’s gymnastic experience. Do you want to enroll her in the ‘fun’ gymnastics program? Or the program with more structure? What direction do you want to take her? What should be structured and what should be play? And despite the lack of planning, how is she so damn cool, already?

I don’t know but you’re still running. And that voice that told you to slow down, suddenly tells you to push it a little bit more.

You find a pride point. You’ve never been able to recover while running. Hmm, maybe this whole running thing IS getting better?

‘Weird’, you think.

As you approach a hill, you tell yourself to just take what the hill gives you. You lean into it and allow the hill to dictate your pace.

‘Nice and easy, short and quick steps, just make it to the top’, you tell yourself.

As you make it to the top, your brain turns back on. ‘You’re tired, dude’.

And again, you find yourself in that battle. You’re halfway finished with your run and you become enamored with wanting to walk. But you’re on the downhill. You repeat, ‘just take what the hill gives you’.

One foot in front of the other. Tonight you sleep in your bed.

You slow your pace and your heart rate drops. Your feet are moving quicker than before. A sense of pride washes over as the hill levels out and you rediscover your pace.

You think about your business. Where do you want to take your career? What is the drive behind what you do? Where do you think you’ll be in two years? Two months?

You begin to plan. In your mind, you lay out a plan for success. You know what you have to do in two days, two weeks, two months, two years. Your life plan starts to unfold. You see it as clearly as you see the street lamp ahead.

You realize you’re nearing the end of your run.

Just a slight uphill to finish it off.

And you’re approaching at a speed that you haven’t reached during this run before. Your legs are burning, your lungs are screaming for air and the sun is blaring in your face. Funny that you just now realize how hot it is outside.

A slight uphill. And you’re close enough to just walk it off and call it a cooldown.

F*ck that voice.

One foot in front of the other. Tonight you sleep in your bed.

You finish your run in a sprint. With your mind, with your body, every ounce of your being, in protest.

You approach your house with heavy lungs. Your breath escapes as you finish with everything you have. And you finally get to your driveway. Run complete.

As a fitness professional, I can’t tell you how many of my peers hate on running. ‘Running sucks, just lift weights faster and take fewer breaks’, as a justified means to escape the idea. And sure, that works. You can 100% increase your heart rate and get all the cardio you need in, without running.

It’s hard. And repetitive. ‘Like a hamster on a treadmill’.

I’ll be the first to say it’s f*cking hard.

But for the last six months, I’ve fallen into running as a challenge. It IS repetitive. It IS hard. It DOES suck.

But I can’t explain how much stronger I’ve become. Every challenge I face has become more temporary. I understand the idea of attacking obstacles.

One foot in front of the other.

It’s teaching me that I can do hard things, regularly. I’ve been given an outlet for stress and anxiety. It has given me targets and goals. I’m able to push the boundaries more. I’m more proud of my body. For years, I resisted it because it was hard. And I still agree with that statement. It will always be hard. But for some reason, I’m comfortable with that.

And tonight I’m excited to sleep in my bed!

Peace like Geese,

Mike

I Am Lost and Don’t Know What Exercise to Do! What Type of Exercise is Best for Me?

I sit down to talk to a prospective client.

“What are your goals?”, I ask.

“I just want to lose weight”, they say.

“Why?”, I clap back.

“I’ve always been overweight and I hate exercise.” They say.

It’s a common obstacle. And every single day, someone will tell me how much they hate something, don’t enjoy something or (sometimes) flat out refuse to do something.

I get it. Working out can be hard.

It can be tough. And it will be, as there is an endless supply of ‘fun’ any fitness professional can dream up.

And I guess the optimist in me likes to see beyond the complaints…I don’t see it as a refusal to enjoy exercise as much as it is a challenge! Exercise in itself has a very loose definition. And it is not the same for everyone.

It doesn’t have to be lifting heavy weight.

It doesn’t have to be running on a treadmill.

Exercise is defined as ‘a process or activity carried out for a specific purpose, especially one concerned with a specified area or skill.’.

With that said, cleaning your home can be exercise. Mowing the lawn. Going for a walk. Really, anything that gets you off your butt and moving can be called exercise.

I’ve personally always been obsessed with the act of dunking a basketball. It’s a cool thing to see done and to me, it says a ton about that person’s athletic ability (or height). Anytime I’m feeling fully overwhelmed with the ‘perfect’ program, I fall back on going out to play some basketball. I like a mildly organized game, with people I do or don’t know. To me, exercise is play.

And I think there is also a bit of a genetic component to certain activities.

For instance, individuals who tend to weigh less or have a lighter frames (ectomorphs) tend to lean toward activities that they perform well at, or have a physical advantage in. Activities like climbing, running for distance, biking for distance or swimming are fun for a lot of these folks as they get an advantage from their physical stature.

Individuals with medium frames (mesomorphs) tend to lean into activities that are more explosive, intermittently. They tend to lean toward sports like basketball, short track sprinting, short track speed skating, soccer, gymnastics, hockey and tennis.

For even bigger frames (endomorphs), try activities that are a bit slower and can use strength as an advantage. These include powerlifting, hiking, golf, football, rugby and baseball.

The thing is, sometimes fitness can be like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. I’ve seen first hand how flexible exercise can be. Instead of trying to conform to the ‘norms’ of exercise, I always will introduce different types of stimuli to see what people truly enjoy. Not every workout has to be a butt kicker. But it should be fun. And it should be rewarding!

And if you haven’t found the right type of exercise yet, keep searching! Keep trying new stuff! Set aside a specific day to go out and kick a ball against a wall. Or throw a ball into a net. Or hit some golf balls. Because why spend all the time and energy worrying about getting to the gym everyday, when you can be out exploring? YOU GOT THIS!

Peace like geese,

Mike

Where do I get my exercises from?

Not really anywhere special. Youtube. Instagram. Google. It comes from my brain and exploration of movement. Something that always bugged me is the inconsistencies in movement pattern nomenclature. And maybe that is where I need more growth. But when a Doctor tells me there is a deficit in metatarsal extension and flexion, that’s not going to relay well to anyone I work with.

What we do as fitness professionals is simple, if only you have practiced and messed around with movement, enough.

Ideas come from understanding how a person moves within the confines of their anatomy.

Some folks will have short levers or long levers along whatever pattern we are trying to create.

We all Squat. We all hinge. Lunge, Push, pull, walk (in some fashion) and move.

Throughout the day, we move in those patterns, not exercises. We think about how your body functions relative to the other patterns. And we look at specific deficiencies in joint angle. Patterns are the basis for how we get stronger, leaner and move more efficiently.

When I decide to throw a movement into a program, it usually isn’t because it’s sexy or something fun I saw online.

We notice valgus on a squat. We see a pension for anterior knee shift on a lunge. There’s an asymmetrical shift in scapular external rotation as you flex your shoulder.

Literally, it’s how you move that we determine how best to attack your structural/neurological/muscular patterns.

With that said, there is a bit more than just observation that goes into our time spent working as a team. And I vow to dive deeper daily to improve your understanding!

Love you! XOXO

Heart Rate Response: Conditioning vs. Illness

Hey all!

AWESOME DATA on a followup to a post I made a couple of weeks ago.

The preceding graphs are tracking resting heart rate.

The picture on the left is my own heart rate in the last month. Last weekend, I came down with a non-covid illness. Though not drastic, there is a definite uptick in resting heart rate that can explain (and actually, helped predict) an impending illness.

The picture on the right I received from a client who has been absolutely crushing his step/cardio goals for the last month. It demonstrates the change in heart rate with a single month of consistent cardiovascular exercise.

Bill Nye would be so proud. What other variables of change you would like to see in regard to increasing fitness and health?

Covid and your gym!

Hey!

It seems like everybody is ready to get back to normal life, whatever that new normal will look like.

Let me preface with a word of caution – everyone is free to make their own choices, and I hope you make the choice that is safe for you – and all the people you interact with. Wear a mask to mitigate risk. Don’t hit the gym if you’re feeling sick.

With that said, I feel like there is about to be a seismic shift in the building blocks of the fitness industry.

Some detriments of the old gym setting:

High potential for contamination via touch. As a dude who spent time in the gym, I’ll be the first to complain people never clean their equipment itself. You will see people wipe down the benches, the cardio equipment, but I honestly can’t remember if I ever saw someone wipe down a barbell.
At the same time, the ones who would do the minimal and wipe down their bench/equipment, never followed proper cleaning procedure. It would usually be a quick wipe with a moist towel. Gyms are not equipped to hire the number of people it would take to keep it clean. And high effort areas of the gym are going to be littered with inadvertent spit and sweat.
The harder you work, the more potential there is for virus to spread. Walk into any gym and notice how compact the cardio section feels. With the tightly packed space, with people working at various intensities, there is an obvious potential for machines and surrounding equipment to become contaminated via heavy, labored breathing.
Group classes are just a bad idea. Although I think there is a potential for that to be filled online or via more strict scheduling procedures, instead of drop-in. But that may also hinder the gyms availability to make group classes viable in their business model.

Fitness companies are going to have to find an answer for these issues. The care of equipment is obviously a big issue, as is working out with people in a confined space without much airflow.

There has been some positivity in the group setting. With groups of 5 people or less, South Korea saw no new cases of covid in the small classes they ran. Same goes for the smaller group classes that were in the lower intensity category (yoga, pilates), although there was no mention of the size of those classes.

So as we all transition back to normal life, keep these things in mind – attend small classes first as there is more ability for your instructors to keep it safe. Find lower intensity classes and search for a facility that doesn’t pack people on top of people.

I think there is a gym model that will capture and excel in the next few years to improve upon the pitfalls of the old gym model.

Personally, I’m going to abstain from the big gym life for a while. Boutique and smaller gyms with a more controlled environment are iffy from my end, but it seems like the less foot traffic, the better. Keep in small groups and respect your neighbors enough to practice social distancing!

As a reference, here’s a link to some stuff that happened in South Korea…

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/health/fitness-classes-coronavirus-korea-wellness/index.html

Peace like Geese,

Mike

The Big Picture

Hey all!

Sup?

Six pack abs.

Toned, lean arms.

Peachy booty.

We see it everyday. From the Insta feeds. The Tiktoks. The Facebook stories.

It’s in our hive mind, it invades our visual and tactile space. Every time you open an app and check on your friends, there it is. And you start to feel like you need to keep up! So you set a goal. You want to lose fat, but you also want to be real with it. You don’t want to be a model, but you DO want to get in shape and feel good about yourself. You want to feel your best and feel like you are making progress toward a healthier body. You want to look back in two years and be proud of your improvements. It’s the big picture you want to see change.

So you search the web for the best ways to approach health.

Eat this. Don’t eat that. Workout this way and not that way. But you’ll probably get hurt if you do it this way. But not that way.

I’ll tell you a secret. If you are reading this, you can get healthier HOWEVER you want.

You want to improve your breathing and swimming competence? Take up underwater basket weaving.

Want to improve your resting heart rate and accountability? Sign up to play soccer on Meetup every Wednesday.

I’ve seen people succeed by walking 30 minutes a day. I’ve seen people succeed by only changing the way they eat. There is nothing wrong with trying a new diet.

One thing remains certain in improving your health – You have to be ready. And only you can tell when you are ready. I’m here to motivate and push you to healthier habits. It’s also a huge part of my job to break it down to make it easier in the long run. If the task is too difficult to maintain, take a step back. Instead of going from 0 to 90 minutes of gym-dedicated time per day, start by walking for 15 minutes and preparing some food for lunch. Do that for two weeks then increase the walking to 25 minutes. Dedicate to the process – not the outcome.

And that perspective is hard to distinguish with all the beautiful, perfect people on your social media feed. The immediacy your feeds create draws you in.

But here is the harsh reality.

You’re not going to have six pack abs today. Sure it would be cool to have them, but that takes time and dedication. There is a path, there is a process to get there. And if you respect it, you will get there.

With that said, what are you looking to get out of your health journey?

What kind of habits do you want to create? And how can you plan to reduce the amount of drag that your current lifestyle creates?

What pieces of your process are fun, right now? Because that might just be your ticket to a more fruitful future.

And I think most of all, have fun.

Lovies,

Mike