Bill Hartman

Food for Thought Regarding Optimal Posture and Movement by Muhammad Amir Ayub

From Bill Hartman:

The greater our ability to manipulate the internal pressures regardless of the task, the greater our tendency to move well or accomplish a task. When we fail to shift or manipulate the internal pressures, movement is restricted or biased.

Either we simply cannot execute a task effectively or we may be limited to such a degree that we lose the ability to dissipate or distribute stress, tension, or pressure throughout the body. In this case, focal pressure and tensions may result in pain. Ask any couch potato how their back could just start hurting for no reason.

Remember the last time you had to sit on an uncomfortable chair for an extended period of time and your butt started to hurt. Too much pressure in one place for too long. Pain can simply be the same problem.

You'll get hurt if you do not move at all, not move in the wrong position, or move wrongly. And you'll get hurt anyway as you age as you're, um, aging. That's why I laugh when sedentary people (who complain of aches and pains anyway) decide to remain sedentary because they're "afraid to get hurt".

Just get up and moving, hopefully in a correct and safe manner, and just do your best.

Bill Hartman on Daily Contingency Plans by Muhammad Amir Ayub

Bill Hartman on always having contingency plans for everything in life (here he gave examples to deal with getting good food/eating too much food/a lack of gym access/a lack of gym time):

I can assure you with relative confidence that today will not go as planned.

Someone will interrupt your productive time. You’ll get distracted from your task at hand. Your work will take longer than expected. Someone else will be using the piece of equipment that you need at the gym. You’ll forget your prepacked lunch.

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The key is to have your contingencies ready to implement when they are necessary. It is the consistency over the long-term that will ultimately bring you success.

Get out your notebook and start planning your contingencies. Today may not go exactly as planned.

Bill Hartman on Two Strategies to Get Things Done by Muhammad Amir Ayub

So he talks about two general strategies for GTD (getting things done):

Eating frogs or making snowballs.

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The frog is the most important task that you need to complete, but because of it’s perceived demand, it’s also something you’ll most likely procrastinate on.

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You can “eat the frog” by getting up early and going to the gym first thing. Workout completed and the rest of the day is easier because you’ll no long worry about getting it done.

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The second strategy is The Snowball Method.

This is actually based on a debt reduction strategy promoted by Dave Ramsey where you pay off the smallest debt first and then the next largest and so on, but you can modify it to any behavior modification challenge you’re facing.

The idea is that you address the low hanging fruit of your behaviors first. Do something small, simple, and measurable toward your goals.

But he qualifies further by saying: 

I can’t say that one is more powerful than the other, but I’ve used both successfully. The key is to take some form of action, right or wrong. Act.

So just kick your own balls, get up and get at it. That's probably the most important message.

Edit: I forgot to link to the original article.