🌱 I peed on the seat (don’t make this mistake)

Here’s your 3 insights in 3 minutes. 

🚽 Don’t Skip the Step

I peed on the toilet seat at a coffee shop.

I know. Hear me out.

What bothered me wasn’t that I did it.

It’s that I almost didn’t notice.

I was thinking about my next call. Whether I’d have time to do laundry. Already mentally at an event later that night.

It was like I was watching a movie of my future self… while forgetting the current scene was still filming.

Then it hit me at the sink.

YO, you just peed on the seat!

Ha. Oh yeah.

So I walked back and cleaned it up.
(Yes, re-washed my hands.)

What struck me was how often this happens.

Not the pee.

The skipping.

Physically here. Mentally three other places. 

🏋️ The Growth Happens Here

For years I’ve thought it would be cool to hire a personal trainer.

I lift consistently, but I figured a pro could clean up some blind spots.

So instead of “maybe someday,” I said: present moment, let’s “do it now!”

This week was my first two sessions.

One huge takeaway that applies to all areas of my life:

Concentric vs eccentric.

Concentric is lifting the weight.
Eccentric is lowering it.

Most people focus on the lift.

But the real gains are in the lowering.

Slow. Controlled. Fully there.

This week I lifted way lighter than usual, but focused on the eccentric.

And I’ve never been more sore.

It made me think.

Where else am I in the right room…

doing the right reps…

but rushing the part that actually creates growth?

The gains are in the lowering.

Which only happens when we’re paying attention.

🧠 One Step

Kobe used to talk about being gassed at the end of practice and running sprints.

Instead of thinking about how much he had left or what he’d do after, he’d look down and tell himself:

One step at a time.

I think about that a lot.

When running, walking, or doing anything.

It’s not about never peeing on the seat.

It’s about being present enough to notice.

And willing enough to clean it up.

One step. Then another.

Salud,
Mitchell

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