The 1 question that changed my life

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Welcome to The Movement Memo, a bi-weekly newsletter where I share actionable tips to help you live your best day ever, every day.

Today's Programming 

• Movement: 3-round sprint

• Quote: Peters on designing your values

• Lesson: The question that redesigned my life 

• Optimization: A new colostrum that I have been loving

Today's Movement

Compete 3 rounds for time: 

• 1000 m row

• 20 cleans (135 / 115 lbs) 

• 10 burpee pull-ups 

Today's Quote

Nothing meaningful happens by accident. But that doesn’t mean we should structure every minute of every day.

The goal of rules and structures is to create guardrails to allow yourself to be consistently creative.

Example: I move my body every single morning at 8:30 a.m., but I do not train the same movement, volume, or intensity every day.

I leave space for serendipity.

In fact many of my best (and favorite) training sessions occur when a friend asks me to join them.

If I was too structured, I wouldn’t give myself the grace to bend my rules.

When you design your best day ever, you bring the culture you want into your life:

• the people
• the environment
• the activities

This in turn shapes your values and dictates who you become.

Today's Lesson Learned

Question to redesign your day:

How can I consistently live a life by design?

On a podcast last week, I was asked about how I structure my days and weeks.

I rarely take a full day off. 

(The only time I do is when I have a big competition coming up). 

I haven't wavered from my disciplined daily regimen, which includes a blend of aerobic and anaerobic exercises, deep work, and active recovery, in years. 

This isn't a brag about being super active; I'm the furthest thing from a typical fitness fanatic you'll find. It's a brag about lifestyle design. It's a brag about the fact that I've built my morning creativity and training sessions into my days such that I feel mentally clear, positive, and energetic all day long, every single day.

And you can too. 

The reason you need a break is that you work in weekly sprints, not daily sprints. You engage intensely in your work for five days, then balance it with total breaks on the weekend.

The reframe that changed my life: 

How can you use daily sprints?

The hardest training is when you are forced to sprint when the distance is unknown.

And this is essentially what you ask yourself to do each week. But, what if you think of work and training on a 2-hour basis? What if you have activities that deplete your energy, like intense training, and activities that recharge your energy, like your contrast therapy session, all built into a single day?

I struggled with this for years in my twenties. I would workout for 5 days in a row, and then the weekend would come and I would be out at the bars until 2:00 a.m. again. I would flip-flop from one extreme to another. If this sounds like you, ask yourself:

Are there ways that you could incorporate an early morning creativity session into every single day? And then follow it up with a 60-minute training session?

Even that small shift could start moving you in the right direction toward a more productive day, and one where you don't feel drained by the end of the week.

Maintaining a balanced lifestyle is the key to unlocking consistency and:

Consistent Predictability > Inconsistent Quality. 

Build more 120-minute fitness and deep work sprints into your days and you'll always feel recharged and be able to focus. 

So, how can you build an early morning session of creativity and training into your daily routine?

Today's Optimization

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