Keep Chopping Wood. Thursday, June 8

Thursday, June 8

I recently talked to one of the parents on our oldest son's baseball team about summer workouts. They had both sons (14 and 12) in a summer strength and conditioning program specific to baseball. The older son was complaining that he had done the same program over the winter break and didn't get faster or stronger and said it was a waste to do it again.

A week or so in, the parents were talking to their boys, and the youngest was talking about how sore he was, while the oldest said he wasn't sore at all. They then had a conversation with the oldest that maybe it wasn't that the program was a waste or not beneficial. It was that he wasn't challenging himself. He was doing what was comfortable and easy, simply going through the motions, doing the work without really doing the work.

They challenged him to up his weight and the intensity of what he was doing, then they could discuss the program's value.

It's a story that matters for us in our journey to getting better. It's easy to do what is easy. It's easy to do what is comfortable. It's easy to show up and go through the motions. But is that making you better, or is it just making you busy?

To grow, we must challenge ourselves. To get better, we must attempt things beyond what we've done before. We have to reject comfort and be about growth.

You won't get where you want to be if you keep doing the same things you've always done. Embrace the challenge. Step into the discomfort of growth.

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Keep chopping wood. 🪵🪓

-Kevin