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A HUGE Issue… The Character of Fitness

20108 Sep
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Jamie Brunner was over 300 pounds. He was managing a restaurant, bent over one night while serving his customers and split his pants from stem to stern. This was a humiliating experience. One year later, he and his wife Meagan were crowned world fitness champions. They collectively dropped over 100 pounds. More importantly they developed a lifestyle system that they are now sharing world wide. Read the whole story at www.kinetixliving.com.

This is an unsolicited commercial for Kinetix. I’m working to live and apply their system. It is a habit system on the physical side, kind of like the CT is on the behavioral side.

I think Jamie (I’ve met with him several times) and Meagan’s story is so remarkable. They are in many respects like you and I. They have no special super human powers. But they chose to change their situation and are continuing on that journey!

Jamie split his pants and they decided to change their personal situations and to take on obesity head on. Now Howard Shultz, Chairman & CEO of Starbucks, and the world’s biggest companies are starting to get involved with Kinetix. This is such a great story about every aspect of the Character Triangle. So much so that Jamie and Meagan Brunner are the first couple in the Character Hall of Fame.

When did you and I feel that we “split our pants” in public? How did it feel? Most importantly what have we done about it?

The only people who can confront the splitting pants feeling is you and me. That’s the beauty and honesty behind self accountability. It’s up to us and we can do it! Ask Jamie and Meagan. Please read their story. Learn from them and the thousands of people they have influenced. No gimmick. No BS …just applying the CT in every way.

with Character,

Lorne

How Do We Manage Personal Change?

201025 Aug
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Posted inBe Accountable, Character Triangle

So we’d like to add more of the Character Triangle into our lives. How do we do that? What helps?

Leo Babauta has authored a helpful and practical personal blog on the topic of “personal change” in the August 11, 2010 edition of www.zenhabits.com. (One of the most popular blogs on the web )

Leo’s advice for driving personal change:

Beat inertia with small, achievable changes (don’t plan on running a marathon, start by walking a mile).
Overcome the resistance of others (get people who are negative on your side to cheer lead or spend less time with them… scarcity people get in the way).
Find the Joy (you have to find the joy in what you’re doing… if you hate running, find the joy in early crisp mornings, or whatever you like about the experience).
Keep the joy alive (find ways of refreshing the joy… e.g. you love the sweat and shower after that run too).
Celebrate little victories (brag about the 5 mile walk on Facebook, put the milestone on the fridge, tell people who care about you).
Make the change part of your life (it’s much easier to do as part of your routine vs. having to do it as an add on… “this is how I live”).
Keep doing it, fail, try again (it is a relentless journey).

To make the Character Triangle a part of you, the same elements of change apply. It is a continuous process of small victories, set backs, more small steps and victories. And so on. It is a habit system. Before you know it you are way down the progress road.

with Character,

Lorne

Character Triangle

Our character is exclusively ours. We define it by how we think and what we do. I believe that acting with Character is driven by what I call the Character Triangle.

What, exactly, is the Character Triangle (CT)?

The CT describes and emphasizes three distinct but interdependent values:

Be Accountable: first person action to make things better, avoiding blame.
Be Respectful: being present, listening, looking again, focusing on the process.
Be Abundant: generous in spirit, moving forward, minimizing the lack of.