Signal strength

Signal Strength; Stop Letting the Noise Win

You don’t have to spend hours in a gym to be strong, fit and healthy.

You can build fitness into your life instead.

Ride a dirt bike. Hike. Walk. Work outside. Explore. Climb. Carry things. Stay active. Stay hydrated. Eat reasonably well. Get enough sleep.

The goal isn’t to maximize the amount of time you spend exercising.

The goal is to get the maximum result from the minimum amount of effort necessary.

But there is another piece of the equation that has nothing to do with exercise.

Focus on what matters.  The Signal

Most people don’t fail because they don’t know what they need to do.

They fail because noise takes over.

There is always something competing for your attention. Your phone. Social media. Work. Other people’s problems. Television. Emails. Errands. Distractions. Something that suddenly seems more important than the thing you originally intended to accomplish.

If you allow the noise to dictate your day, your priorities will continually get pushed aside.

 Highly successful individuals like Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Kevin O’Leary all maintain 80% or higher signal strength.  

That’s why achieving goals requires priority discipline.

At the beginning of the day, identify the two, three or five things that actually matter.

Not twenty things.

Not a giant to-do list that makes you feel productive just because you checked off a bunch of meaningless tasks.

Pick the things that move your life forward.

Then get them done.

No matter what gets in the way.

 Steve Jobs didn’t care about what other people wanted.  Didn’t matter what the customer wanted. What mattered was his Signal Strength.  His mistakes didn’t compare to his ambition and ability to complete goals.  

The day doesn’t have to go perfectly. Things will happen. Plans will change. Problems will appear.

But your priorities shouldn’t disappear every time something unexpected happens.

Protect the important things from the noise

Think of your attention as a limited resource.

Every distraction takes a piece of it.

If you spend the entire day responding to whatever demands your attention, you may end the day exhausted without accomplishing anything that was actually important.

That’s the trap.

Busy isn’t the same thing as productive.

You can spend twelve hours doing things and still avoid the two things that would have made the biggest difference.

The solution is surprisingly simple:

Decide what matters. Do those things first. Don’t negotiate with the noise.

This principle applies to fitness just as much as business, finances, relationships or personal goals.

If getting stronger matters, schedule the training and do it.

If getting outside matters, go outside.

If riding your dirt bike matters, ride.

If losing weight matters, make the food choices that support it.

If building a business matters, accomplish the important business task before the distractions consume the day.

You don’t need perfect motivation.

You need discipline around your priorities.

 Which you can easily measure.

 Look around you.  Be 100% honest with yourself.  What is your life? What have you accomplished?  What takes most of your waking hours?  That is your signal.  

if you don’t like your signal. change it.  Prioritize.  

the prioritized signal comes easy when you want it and enjoy it.  When your brain is rewarded for it.  

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Fitness can become part of the lifestyle

This is where a minimalist approach to fitness becomes powerful.

You don’t necessarily need to spend five days a week in a gym.

Your life can provide a tremendous amount of physical activity.

Dirt biking challenges your grip, forearms, shoulders, back, core and legs while demanding balance, coordination, reaction time and endurance.

Hiking gives you walking volume, elevation changes and time on your feet.

Working outside keeps you moving.

Walking, climbing, carrying and exploring all contribute to physical capability.

Then, if your lifestyle isn’t providing enough resistance to maintain or build the amount of muscle you want, add a couple of short, hard strength sessions each week.

Train what your lifestyle doesn’t already provide.

The bigger idea

Fitness isn’t supposed to consume your life.

Your health should support your life.

The objective isn’t to spend every spare hour exercising, counting calories or following somebody else’s complicated routine.

It’s to build simple principles into the way you live:

Move. Get outside. Challenge yourself. Eat reasonably well. Stay hydrated. Recover. Maintain strength.

And perhaps most importantly:

Decide what matters and don’t let the noise take it away from you.

Every morning, identify the two, three or five things that will make the day successful.

Then do them.

Even when the day gets messy.

Even when you don’t feel like it.

Even when something else seems more urgent.

Because over time, accomplishing a few important things every single day creates something much bigger than a productive day.

It creates a productive life.

 Your brain starts feeling it needs it.  It likes it.  The signal is good.  The signal is life.  

Fuel your Signal Strength.  

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