Do one thing today that you know you should do, continue that every day until you don’t even have to think about it then add another thing. Let them become habits and watch your life improve. Motivation is fraudulent, discipline is key. We can all achieve our dreams with one constructive choice at a time. Get uncomfortable and get to work.
Author Archives: Until Death Collective
Stay the Course
In his book, “The Power of Habit”, author Charles Duhigg explains that there is a habit cycle. To start a new habit, you must first have three things: a cue, a routine, and a reward.
How to Create a Wellness Plan
Wellness, therefore, is an ongoing process: a journey. A wellness plan is focused on your practices within that process, applying your learning forward and integrating what you’ve learned into a positive and proactive sense of yourself. So think of this as a process of moving towards wholeness as a person, with less self-rejection, shame, and blame. Along your wellness journey, you might discover some goals or inspiration that leads you to a training program, which then becomes part of your wellness journey and is woven into your wellness plan.
The Burn Out
Fatigue, short term memory loss, increased stress, similarities to feeling delirious, forgetfulness, trouble sleeping, unregulated emotions, and brain fog are all symptoms we may experience when we are burnt out. If we were to put it into more simpler terms, that point where you are just sitting there and thinking to yourself, “Fuck man I’ve had enough. I don’t know how much more I can keep doing this”.
Mental Health & the Holidays
There are days when I wake up and I am in my head and can’t make sense of my thoughts and I have no idea what made me feel this way?! Luckily, today I am able to identify my patterns of behavior and I am able to check in with myself and respond in a healthy, productive way.
How to Use Your MyZone for Better Recovery During Your Training Session
So how long should you rest between sets? The answer depends on your goal. Rest periods are based on how the body produces the energy to perform work during training. Specifically, the body uses three different energy systems, phosphagen, glycolytic and oxidative; however, the amount of each energy system’s contribution depends on the intensity and the duration of the event.
Finding Hope
Coming back was hard. On certain days it still is, even all these many years later. Having to learn to want to live is not something most people consider. It is difficult- the darkness that we carry, the demons that we have to make home with inside of us, the ones we treat with to learn their names to take away their power.
Continuing the Conversation
It doesn’t only affect military personnel or Veterans. It includes everyone, from first responders to the normal average person. It breaks my fucking heart, if I am going to be honest. It never really gets easier to process. The sadness and sorrow from the loss, aches with us for a lifetime.
If I Could Say One More Thing…
When my plane landed, my mom had a phone full of missed calls and voicemails. He had taken his own life. The one person whom I felt could truly empathize with me was gone. It’s hard to not think of what I could have said or done differently, a weight that I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.
Not Alone
Recently death spoke to me in a dream. All this time I thought that the end was something to be feared. Instead, the Reaper showed me that death is a motivator for life. Death is a reminder to live. No matter how hard it gets, I am grateful to be alive every damn day.