I am stuck on a bunch of stuff right now.

A quick moving person would be making progress right now, but I am not.

My default setting is to stay stuck for a long time.  I wouldn’t find the answer. 

I can experiment my way out of things.  I can at least try things.

I can make a few phone calls. 

These things would help.

I could also just sit and think about things and read about things.  These things would not help so much.  The answer is not out there on some website in a 700 word blogpost.

I have been thinking a lot the last few days about what path I will choose.  That is probably part of the solution, choosing a path rather than just thinking.

Life is largely good, but I am still stuck on some important things. 

I think I stay stuck a lot of times by accident.

I don’t do this kind of thing with my lifting.  When I see a weak point or am stuck with things I address it immediately.  If my bench press has a problem during a workout, I address it in that same workout.  I will do some technique practice or special exercise to work on the problem.  Things don’t always get fixed immediately but they get addressed. 

I wonder if I get stuck at other things because I don’t address what needs addressed fast enough.  I let things simmer and fester instead of addressing things that day.  When I was a coder I would have trouble with learning a new programming technology and that problem would tend to persist.  I rarely sat down and addressed the problem the same day I realized it existed.  I might have read a blog post but I didn’t address it in a meaningful way.  In retrospect a 2 or 3 hour deep dive on this new technology would have saved so many problems.  This is addressing problems in a meaningful way.  I do this with my bench press problems though.

I don’t know why I don’t address business problems immediately.  I don’t really care either.  I just know this is part of how I keep getting stuck.  I know how to fix things with my bench press, so I can at least apply that principle to other stuff.

This is how I think of things, and yes how I keep trying to bench press all the things.

Interesting Finds

Every week I spend a lot of time reading and looking for new ways to get stronger, healthier and more awesome.  Here are some of the best things I have found this week.

Strength and Conditioning

Good intro to the Romanian Deadlift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3eO9RVbadY

More advanced Romanian deadlift video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJUP3O-_MJ4

Mindset

Some good thoughts on discipline, and how we can have great self discipline and accomplish nothing.  This one gave me a few things to think about.  https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/are-you-disciplined-or-just-self-disciplined/

I really enjoyed this article on leveling up.  It really goes along with my thoughts of making sure we are practicing the right things.  https://www.raptitude.com/2021/10/how-to-level-up-instead-of-plugging-away/