These are the people you surround yourself with. They believe in you-so they expect better from you. When you fail to live up to the expectations you are capable of, they help you up with one hand whilst smacking you on the head with the other. No, the right kinds of friends believe in you. Negative all the time. My advice is to dump these kinds of “friends” if you can even call them this. Every new idea or dream you have they crap all over it. They don’t want anything to disrupt their world. They want to keep you down where they are. The friends they surround themselves with. ![]() ![]() Even if this means sometimes you fail to lift the weight! You want to grow? Take the job in the challenging environment, in a challenging company that will push you. They constantly overload their career “muscles” to make them stronger and better. They may fail, but they will learn and grow. They will throw themselves into high-stress roles and put themselves into the arena. They will take on tough assignments, maybe moving industries or countries just to challenge themselves to grow. Conversely, those who embrace overload want to work for the best companies, ones where they will be pushed and challenged. They stay in a comfy job where they “know everyone” and don’t have to learn new names, new processes, new ways of doing things. Ones they can screw around and slack off and still get paid. Those who are stuck in one place, and miserable most of the time, take easy jobs. Not only in the gym or running on the roads but in all walks of life. What the most successful do, those who maximize their potential and continually improve, is they embrace the overload principle across their life. If you don’t overload yourself, you don’t get better. Because with these statements, they toss the overload principle into the garbage. These are people who will realize only a fraction of what they can truly become. What you see is all I am ever going to be.” This is a person saying, in coded language, “I refuse to improve, I refuse to get better, I refuse to be pushed or challenged to improve myself. When a person says, “Love me for who I am”, or “I am what I am, take it or leave it”, well this is the ultimate cop-out. You can see people every day rejecting the overload principle whether they realize it or not. We want to take it easy, be comfortable, and yet have all the success in life! We want improvement on one hand, we want success, but we are often unwilling to pay the price. We don’t like the overload principle on a visceral level. Once an individual embraces the overload principle, they are in for a world of success, more than they can ever imagine! But it’s hard work. Then we as humans adapt, grow, and get better. You want it to improve in any facet of life, it needs overload. Our personality, our character, is a muscle of sorts. Our entire being hence responds to the overload principle. And that’s the route to success on the fields of sports or any athletic endeavor.īut, as I look back on the past 30 years in the corporate world, I have come to realize that the entire body is like a muscle. Ask it to do more than we did the last workout. And then the body adapts, down to a cellular level, so that it is ready the next time you ask it to perform at that level. If you want to get better, you have to stress the muscles. Once the body has adjusted to a certain level of stress, it stops improving. ![]() And they get frustrated because they don’t improve. So many people get up do the same run or the same weight machines, day after day, year after year. Once you understand and internalize this, one can reach for the stars. “In order for a muscle (including the heart) to increase strength, it must be gradually stressed by working against a load greater than it is used to.” ![]() And here is how it is defined by the dictionary: On day one, hour one, of any physiology course, the student will learn about the most important principle of human physiology. And physiology, like all sciences, has clear principles that dictate the science. My professional life started out as an exercise physiologist for P&G executives in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio in 1984.
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