50,000 steps and a new mindset

Hey Clubbies,

Starting off with a shoutout to Scott Nixon for walking 100,000 steps in less than 19 hours last Friday.

Why? Personal challenge. He wasn't out to prove anything to anyone else. Just to himself.

Setting a hard goal and then going out and executing it is its own reward. Even if he'd come up short, he still got up at 4am and started walking. That's the win.

So many people are so afraid of failing that they never even attempt anything hard. They overthink it. They talk themselves into the easy way out.

Discipline is hard. Feeling shitty or being sick is hard. Choose your hard.

In the last issue, I wrote about how life on the road has taken a toll on my eating habits and my walking. I usually write the newsletter a few days early and schedule it.

Then I read it again on Thursday, just like you. It's wild how differently it hits once you stop being the writer and start being the reader.

Right before that last email landed, I hit some setbacks. And one big bummer. Nothing tragic. But I was in a very different headspace than when I wrote it.

Old me was always looking for a reason to drink. Last week handed me a bunch of them.

But a clear head won. I put that energy into walking and working out instead.

A while back, Scott picked Friday the 18th as his big day. The plan: 100k steps in 24 hours. Selfishly, the timing couldn't have been more perfect. Exactly the kick I needed.

I walked with him for a solid four hours around downtown Cleveland. Then we split up and went our own ways. Him to 100k greatness. Me to a paling-in-comparison 50k.

But I didn't stop there. That day was the catalyst for a whole new mindset.

Since then, I've been crushing my walking goals. And it's wild how everything else has followed. My blues are gone. Things are falling into place. And I'm so ready for a BIG fourth quarter to close out the year.

Here's what I've been writing down:

It helped. I used to write off vision boards as woo-woo hippie stuff. But there's definitely something to meditating, visualizing and journaling.

You choose your attitude. So I'm refusing to choose between life on the road and healthy goals. I'm doing both. 20k steps a day, minimum. Kettlebell workouts. And a hard no to crappy conference food.

This issue might've been more of a note to myself. Anyways, thanks for reading.

If you want to try it yourself, grab a notebook tonight. Write down your favorite thing about the day. Then the worst thing, and what could've made it better. Give it a few weeks and you'll start seeing patterns in both columns.

Stay Sparkling,

Sorin

produced by Scott Nixon

Laurynn has been a bartender since she was 19 and a member of the Club Soda Club for just over two years. In this episode, she talks about what happens when drinking is built into both your job and your social life, the relationships she realized she'd been under-prioritizing, and why what once felt like an identity crisis now feels like something that excites her.

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