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The ironBlog: The Inner Game
Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
An athlete asked about the following comments:
The pain of discipline weighs ounces -- the pain of regret weighs tons.
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
When structuring a training plan for a group of people, just how individualized can the workouts be? And to what degree do they need to be? This article reviews some of the internal factors that determine improvement and performance and why you can give the same training plan to an identical set of twins and achieve very different results... [
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
Farewell Rose Hacker, 102 years young...
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Category: Inner
Posted by: felipe
Losing our best friend means grief and pain -- but painful times can also be an opportunity to confirm what really matters to us. Those who leave often leave behind valuable lessons for us to incorporate into our own lives.
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
As some of you know, I spent 10 days at the turn of the year in a Mindfulness Retreat in Thailand. This was a version of what is known as "Vipassana" meditation, a 2500-year old practise of developing wisdom and mindfulness in our daily living and approach to life. In a nutshell, the time was spent honing one's concentration with 12 hours of sitting, walking and swimming (!!) meditation daily, balanced with meals and several talks a day on aspects of developing wisdom, compassion and "loving kindness" as our natural disposition.
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
Ending our series on The Building Blocks of Success, a few short words to wrap it all up.
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
Wrapping up our series on The Building Blocks of Success, Part IX looks at Detachment. Zen out and reflect on the following.
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
In Part VIII of our look at some of the Building Blocks of Success, we drop in on Responsibility and examine its contributions to our success. [
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
In this installment of The Building Blocks of Success we examine the Mother of all A words: Attitude. [
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
In Part VI of the Building Blocks of Success, we look at Detail and how attention to it determines ultimately who fails and who succeeds. [
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
Part V of our series on The Building Blocks of Success looks at Determination, the driving force that compels us to carry on with the task at hand against the odds, against the difficulties.
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
Part IV of our look at the Building Blocks of Success looks at Discipline, that most misunderstood component of Success and happiness. [
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
This installment of The Building Blocks of Success looks at Dedication, our commitment to taking the steps to achieve a goal.
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
This installement of The Inner Game looks at that most powerful of emotions: Desire. Without it, what can you hope to achieve? [
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
It's November and time to write up my annual New Year's Resolution...
"What?!" I hear you exclaiming, "It's only November!"
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Category: Inner
Posted by: marc
From an article of Head Coach Marc Becker, written in another life...
Have you ever caught yourself thinking that there must be some secret to the consistent success of top athletes in this or other sports? That it’s their perfect nutritional strategy, their über-bike technology or some secret training session they do that explains why they consistently produce results year in and year out? “Oh man”, you might think, “if I could only afford that bike frame or a year’s supply of this supplement then I’d rock!!!”
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