Endurance

So how's the Champ doing?

Pretty good under the circumstances.

Moving into the big leagues - it's painfully familiar at times, but it's where he needs to be. Training - it's painfully difficult, especially staying committed to it. Training is what's brought him this far in a short time. What a year...

Things can change a lot in 365 days. The weather is the same as last year but the climate is dramatically different. Now is when you start to realize just how much has happened this last year. Now is no time to be tired. There's endless work to do - both training and ring time.

Where is he on the ladder? Somewhere in the middle - fighting to make success a habit and make positivity a matter of muscle memory. The fight is mostly internal, where the most confusing work needs to be done.

Good and bad things happen in life. How they affect us could easily be graded on a scale in tenths. One being the lowest and worst and 10 being the highest and best. We place up and down on this scale depending on how we feel. And the way we feel about events are relative to our position on the scale. Some things are positive for one point while some things can be negative for three points. They affect where we sit on the scale.

Let's say you're at seven and score a positive five. Well you've only got three points to go, so this wouldn't be as big a deal as if you were at three and scored the same five. Of course this works in reverse as well.

Training is the only way you can bring up your standings. It makes the bigger positives more likely to occur and affects your everyday state. No training leads to failure followed by bigger failures. This thing is pretty complex and difficult to win. Consistent training is the answer every time. It keeps you from over-complicating an already complicated idea.

Back ot the gym for more endurance.