Motivation secret #1: Define Your Deep Reason Ask yourself one question today: Why am I doing this? OK, two questions: Why am I really doing this? In this post – the first in a series about motivation – Precision Nutrition coach Craig Weller shows us how...
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Motivation secret #1: Define Your Deep Reason Ask yourself one question today: Why am I doing this? OK, two questions: Why am I really doing this? In this post – the first in a series about motivation – Precision Nutrition coach Craig Weller shows us how finding your “deep reason” creates the will to keep going when the going gets tough. Special operations At age 17 I left home in my small town in South Dakota for a six-year enlistment in the Navy. I’d spend those six years either operating as or going through the special operations selection process for a community known as SWCC: the Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen. In case you’ve never heard of SWCC, they’re the guys in the boats in the movie Act of Valor. Selection training for a special operations force (SOF) is essentially a process of systematic testing and torture, which eliminates all but a small number of volunteers. Depending on the program and the time of year, anywhere from 60 to 90 percent of candidates will either
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