Shawn Phillips | Start Strong Monday

Challenge Success Tip #1:
Why Hidden Obstacles Are Most Likely to Undermine Your Success

You (I, we) don’t see things as they are but as you perceive them to be. A difference as enormous as it is subtle. When you’re preparing for a challenge, be it a 12-week Transformation, a marathon or a even a new career, know that you interpret it through your own lens of experience. Your attention will zero in on the the things you’ve learned to be aware of. As a result, you get derailed by things—some times relatively little things—that were hidden in plain sight.

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The Race to Nowhere

How long would it take you to ride an exercise bike for 185 hours? No, this is not a riddle or IQ test. I mean it quite literally. If you rode a respectable 30 minutes, 4 days per week you’d finish in just under 2 years—93 weeks to be exact and Tom Seabourne would nip you by a mere 92 weeks.

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