When I first opened ACLAÍ back in 2013, after scraping together the capital required to open a gym from savings, loans, and selling my car, I kind of felt that the hardest part was going to be getting the doors opened on day one. Alas, I was mistaken. In reality, the most fun part of the early days was shopping for fancy gear, kitting out the gym floor, and imagining how busy things were going to be once those doors swung open on day one. The real difficulty came in the form of figuring out exactly what kind of a training facility was to be, what services we would offer (and which we would not offer), and the figuring out how to get people to know that we existed!

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Thanks for stopping by my personal blog, where I post thoughts, notes, and ideas every now and again. Feel free to browse, comment, or share. Alternatively, throw down your electronic device, run out doors, and have some fun. Life is short.

 

Have you ever noticed that some days you are just ‘in the groove, and some days you cant even see the grove? It happens to me. I hit the groove, and it might last a week, a month, or even a bit more. Then the grove slips a bit, and theres a period of time until i find myself back in there.

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In recent times, I have taken to having a one-purpose backpack that does the job for going to work, a weekend away, going to training, or longer trips abroad. In my eagerness to have a one-for-all backpack, last year I had everything from my laptop, go-pro, ipad, phone, speaker, clothes, shoes, and training equipment in this bag of tricks. All very well until someone robbed the bag and all its contents and left me with very little technology!

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There are certain things that stem the tide of progress when it comes to work, sport, training, or pretty much anything as far as I can see. Off the top my head, I jotted these ones down. Let me know in the comments if you agree/ disagree, or have any additions!

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While listening to one of my favourite podcasts, ‘This American Life’, I learned of an interesting theory named “The Dunning–Kruger effect” which is basically a is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.

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Success, whether in sport, business, or life in general, all comes down to our attitudes towards challenges and overall mindset. Here are three elements that are essential if you want to make real progress in the right direction.

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