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This rule will keep you moving forward, even when you want to quit
“Never do nothing”
It was earlier in his life, perhaps when he worked in finance, that Dave Spitz picked up a belief:
“If you do everything on your to-do list, you’re succeeding. If you don’t, you’re failing.”
Dave quit finance and eventually started California Strength, a training facility for Olympic weightlifting.
While he owns a gym, he doesn’t actually get to work out all the time. Things get busy. So he had to shift this belief into something new. He told himself:
“You don’t always have to do everything. You just never do nothing.”
When Dave doesn’t follow his plan, he doesn’t feel like he’s failed. As long as he gets in his 10,000 steps per day, stands for 12 hours per day, and lifts heavy things a handful of times a week, avoids processed foods, and maintains a balanced diet of proteins, fruits, vegetables, that’s success.
This is a really great motto. I found it through Juliet and Kelly Starrett’s book, Built to Move, in which they suggest their own exercise for showing up every day during a particularly busy part of their lives. They called it The 10s: 10…
