While I'm sure you'll enjoy the video, it's the KB equivalent of pink DBs. They might as well be holding rolling pins. At least they could put those to some use.
Looked to me like the KB equivalent to "Namaste Yoga" on FitTV. Good to get a rise…
Whew, feel like crap today. Head is foggy and body is just wiped out.
The last two days have been the big hurrah mid-year training stuff at our company. It's meant a lot of time mingling, interacting with drunk people and giving presentations. Sorta like the summit but the participants are softer.
Going to try to push through today. My next step is to write the bigass post about my 2nd half goal regarding my career. It'll be a doozy.
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- Mignon McLaughlin
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
Alright, time for the big career background, and then in the next post I'll include the formal list of goals for 2nd half 2008.
Things have come pretty easy to me for most of my life. I was born into a middle-class family in Arkansas and knew early on that I was smarter than the other kids. I don't mean this in a egotistical way -- I wasn't better than the other kids, just more intelligent and had a knack for memory and efficiency. School was always a breeze. I went through elementary, middle and high schools while taking all the honors classes and almost never having homework. I picked things up quickly and intuitively figured out the fastest way to get things done. I never really had to work hard.
This continued into college as I got a degree in International Business. The first couple of years were a challenge in time managment since I was playing baseball (in my opinion the hardest collegiate sport to play in terms of impact on academics, with more than 50 games per season and most on weekdays). Still I made it and had a near-4.0 GPA.
I wanted to get my MBA right away, but none of the top schools would even talk to me at age 21. I took the GMAT and rocked it, and not really because I knew the material. I've always been able to take tests very well and sorta get into the mind of the test-writer. That may sound weird. Basically I can read a test and figure out by the wording and patterns what the probable answers are. So I got a 740 without studying. And nothing really to be proud of because I didn't feel as if I worked for it.
That was enough to overcome the age factor and get into a good MBA program. For the next two years I worked my ass off for the first time in my life. I was challenged, inspired and motivated. Then I went to work.
The companies I've worked for have been much more like high school than business school. Pretty soon I found myself finding efficiencies and allowing myself to slack off while still getting awesome results. I found that I didn't have to work hard at all to meet and exceed the goals of any job they gave me. And instead of using that to keep moving forward and growing in my skills, I used it to do just enough to succeed without pushing myself.
I'm still doing that. This week our company had all-hands meetings and the CEO introduced my division as the "bright shining star" of the company this year and I felt guilty instead of proud. Because I know I underachieved bigtime and have not done what I should have, given what I'm capable of. I haven't been challenged or inspired in a long, long time. Somewhere along the way I've lost the me that cared about making a difference and using my skills. That will change.
There are a few ways I plan to do that. And since I'm an old Stephen Covey fan, I know that I need to focus on my perspectives and attitudes, not my habits. Once I fix my perspectives, the virtuous-cycle habits from my MBA days will click back in. Here are the attitudes I have problems with:
Guilt -- I often feel that I don't deserve more success than I already have, leading me to self-sabotage my job efforts and slack off, thus hampering my sales commissions and bringing me down to a compensation level I don't feel so badly about. To fix this in the short-term, I plan to focus on the fact that my sales manager role brings in revenue that helps the entire company. In bringing in big deals, I'm serving my fellow employees and helping them keep their jobs. To fix this in the long-term, I'll begin exploring different career paths that make better use of my talents and interests (a mix of business consulting, psychology and teaching). Business projects only mean something to me in a context of people, not just profits. When I'm helping people I don't feel guilty about the rewards that come with it.
Boredom -- Once I figure out a new role, industry or product, it loses its luster really quickly. To address this in the short-term, I will read more articles about my own industry (banking), get involved in the alumni programs at my MBA alma mater, and develop an unrelated new skill (piano) to train my brain to learn again. Gotta snap outta my comfort zone. My perspective shift here is that life is too short for me to stay the same person doing the same things. I'm miserable if I'm not growing and changing, and now I remember that.
Laziness -- I was born into a family that glorified leisure. It's one of my most deeply-engrained paradigms. Instead of focusing on it in particular, I'm hoping the above two points will address this indirectly. We'll see.
There you go. Probably more than you ever wanted to know about me.
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- Mignon McLaughlin
And for those in the peanut gallery who were overwhelmed by the length and psycho-babble of my previous post, here are my 2nd half '08 goals:
1) Exercise -- regular KB/DB/Complex training
2) Skill -- learn to read sheet music and play piano
3) Career -- higher productivity at current job and begin exploring new career paths
Metrics for each goal
1) 4 workouts per week and keep weight under 205
2) Be able to play several recognizable songs by Christmas. Post a YouTube video on the forum as proof. I will think about taking requests.
3) Double my sales call volume. Take initiative on selling new products. Start a formal training/mentor program with my sales guy. Get plugged in with my MBA alumni program for education/networking opportunities.
Whoa... talk about stretch goals. This is killer.
__________________ Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
I mean, it's not really all that much work, just a bunch of items on a checklist and they go 1, 2, 3…
I assume you're gonna show me by example, Senorita Step-by-Step?
Of course, I didn't put all the "maintenance" type goals on the list, such as:
1) Be a good daddy (playtime, listening, tradition-building and honoring)
2) Be a good husband (playtime, listening and hittin' it)
3) Teaching bible classes at church (every Sunday and a Wednesday now and then; these take a ton of prep work for me since it's like Gandhi teaching Mormonism)
__________________ Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
I assume you're gonna show me by example, Senorita Step-by-Step?
*pfft* whatever. We all know I'm a "do as I say" kinda gal.
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Of course, I didn't put all the "maintenance" type goals on the list, such as:
1) Be a good daddy (playtime, listening, tradition-building and honoring)
2) Be a good husband (playtime, listening and hittin' it)
3) Teaching bible classes at church (every Sunday and a Wednesday now and then; these take a ton of prep work for me since it's like Gandhi teaching Mormonism)
well, maybe that's where the idea for the special underwear came from. *shrug*
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Originally Posted by Phaedrus49er
I request "Stricken" by Disturbed
I was gonna say Feliz Navidad, pero necesita ponerse un sombrero y cantar en español.
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
On a related note, have you ever seen the Hip Hop Bible? Here's Psalm 23:
Psalm 23 in the Hip Hop Bible
The Lord is all that, I need for nothing.
He allows me to chill.
He keeps me from being heated
and allows me to breathe easy.
He guides my life so that
I can represent and give
shouts out in his Name.
And even though I walk through
the Hood of death,
I don’t back down
for you have my back.
The fact that you have me covered
allows me to chill.
He provides me with back-up
in front of my player-haters
and I know that I am a baller
and life will be phat.
I fall back in the Lord’s crib
for the rest of my life.
True dat, bruva. True. Dat.
__________________ Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
Almost forgot. I worked out at the YMCA yesterday:
Alternating DB bench -- 40lb
Bench pistols -- five risers (time to go lower now)
Seated rows -- 120lb
DB snatches -- 65lb
DB static hold -- 85lb each, 25 seconds
Rotating planks -- a lot of seconds of agony
When I walked in, they were handing out ice cream to celebrate their 60th anniversary or something. I declined, but as I walked down the hall I noticed that Opera Man was in front of me. Great.
He walked right past the door to the locker room. Huh? He couldn't go to the pool because it was closed (TYVM, Hurricane Holly). There is, however, a back door to the locker room that's meant for going directly from the pool to the locker room. It's for people dripping wet to head straight to the showers and bypass the lockers. He went in that door, fully dressed. Okay?
I went in the main locker room door and started getting my workout clothes on. I heard a noise and turned around. There was Opera Man, naked and pacing in the steam room and making "Woop!" noises in falsetto.
I headed upstairs to the free weight area to do my workout. He came up about five minutes later and tricked a guy into doing medicine ball tosses with him. At least they weren't swiss ball tosses, although when Opera Man would really zing a throw I could see the other guy's eyes bulge out. I laughed. And when I finished my workout and left, I grabbed some ice cream.
One more workout at the office gym today and then we're heading out of town for the weekend. RedWifey's granddad is having an 80th BD party in East Texas.
__________________ Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
What's a db static hold? In what position do you hold it?
Have a nice trip.
Hanging by my sides. It's exactly like a farmer's walk, without the walking thing. I would prefer to walk but there isn't room at the YMCA for that kind of thing.
Just for grip and for fun when I'm already wiped out at the end of the workout.
__________________ Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
On a related note, have you ever seen the Hip Hop Bible? Here's Psalm 23:
Psalm 23 in the Hip Hop Bible
The Lord is all that, I need for nothing.
He allows me to chill.
He keeps me from being heated
and allows me to breathe easy.
He guides my life so that
I can represent and give
shouts out in his Name.
And even though I walk through
the Hood of death,
I don’t back down
for you have my back.
The fact that you have me covered
allows me to chill.
He provides me with back-up
in front of my player-haters
and I know that I am a baller
and life will be phat.
I fall back in the Lord’s crib
for the rest of my life.
Dynamic warmup and mobility work
Glute/hip activation
Squat rows -- 150lb (full stack)
T-pushups
Skullcrushers
Curl bar curls
PNF
Roman chair leg raises
Farmer's walks
Holy crap.
__________________ Megaloi -- My Blog
"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."
- Mignon McLaughlin
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