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I promised you yesterday that Michelangelo quote.

And I’m sure you’ve barely been able to sleep with excitement since.

Quick digress though.

According to Wikipedia, he (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni to give him his full, less catchy name) died on 18th February 1564.

Exactly 416 years before I was born for anyone that wants to start present shopping now

Also, the portrait on his Wikipedia page (by Daniele da Volterra) makes him look a bit like a ‘Butler in the buff’ – topless with a bow tie on.

Anyway, his quote:

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”

What he was after was always in there.

Nothing new was created.

Just the stuff ‘covering it up’ gradually removed until the inner beauty was revealed.

And we are much the same.

You don’t really need to change.

Not fundamentally.

When we talk ‘transformation’ it’s not about becoming a different person.

It’s more about gradually removing all that’s built up around you.

The self limiting beliefs.

The habits that don’t serve you well.

The long term solutions to short term problems that have stuck.

The complication and confusion.

The overwhelm.

The ways of dealing with life we’ve picked up from others that make it all harder than it has to be.

Until what’s left is the beauty of you.

That was always there underneath.

Much love,

Jon ‘One month to my birthday’ Hall

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I saw a quote the other day.

In a book I’m reading.

I’ll come to the quote itself in a mo.

It was by Leonardo Da Vinci.

So I thought I’d see if I could make a series of blogs from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who are, of course, named after renaissance artists.

Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael.

Maybe pop something to do with Splinter or Shredder in to make a week’s worth of blogs.

But, no.

Having googled, I can’t find anything good from Donatello and Raphael.

Apart from, you know, paintings and stuff.

I’ll cover Michelangelo tomorrow.

Old Leo’s quote?

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

A number of times over the years, we’ve had people tell us they’ve decided

to ‘go elsewhere’ because they get ‘more advanced’ stuff.

More advanced training methods,

Being told exactly what to eat for the best possible results.

And so on.

And, if seeing the people that have said that every now and again on Facebook has shown us one thing…………

It’s that ‘more’ hasn’t worked for them.

After nearly two decades doing this, I know that what people need isn’t more complicated and harder to do stuff.

It’s simpler and easier stuff.

And then, maybe when that’s a habit, move up a bit at a time.

If you’re not already scheduling a time to exercise, do that first.

Either booking an RTP Session or something else.

Next step is to turn up and do it.

If you’ve got weight you want to lose and haven’t checked your average calorie intake through tracking with an app like MyFitnessPal, that’ll have more benefit than dozens of other more complicated things you could do.

Check www.myrise.co.uk/learn on how to do that if you’re already a member with us.

Or www.myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you’re not and want to get some life changing results in 2021

We can keep levelling up when we’ve got those things down.

But, until then, remember that “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”

Much love,

Jon ‘Krang’ Hall

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Last year Liverpool Football Club won their first ‘top flight’ in three decades.

Do you know how they did it?

Yes, I know they scored more points then anyone else.

But how did they get those points?

Man City scored more goals than them (and had more shots and shots on target).

It wasn’t even in the goalkeeper’s performance.

City’s keepers saved 0.5% more of the shots on target taken at them than Liverpool’s did.

It wasn’t even in the number of shots taken against them.

City had a mammoth 18% less total shots taken against them.

Chelsea also beat Liverpool in this (and in their own total shots taken).

It was the step before that.

The difference between shots taken and shots on target.

There was a mammoth 25% difference between the teams there.

———- Note: I’m well aware that I’ve done what most football ‘pundits’ do and had a I point I wanted to make and found the ‘stats’ to “prove it”  ———-

It wasn’t the ‘what they did’.

It was ‘what they stopped happening’.

And, more importantly, not leaving it to that “last line of defence”.

A lesson we could all benefit from.

The ‘what we do’ is still great…………

The exercise, etc.

But if we’re allowing all that good work to be ‘undone’ at ‘the other end’ with our eating…………

If we’re leaving that to the ‘last line of defence’………

To our willpower to make us do something we don’t really want to do at that point…………

We’ll probably do what Liverpool did for 30 years.

Watch as others achieve what we want to.

If we create the equivalent to ‘solid defence’………..

An environment that doesn’t test our willpower………..

The equivalent to a sports psychologist that helps us question the way we see the ‘game’………..

Then enough of those relatively little differences will add up over a ‘season’.

Much love,

Jon ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ Hall

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Amongst the various things we got our kids for Christmas were some books.

They all enjoy reading and / or been read to.

The two older boys (10 and 12) feel they’re too old for “bedtime stories” but they still like me picking out some interesting facts from the ‘Guinness Book of World Records’ or ‘Ripley’s Believe It Or Not’.

And they and Izzie still read a lot by themselves.

But the youngest is only four and still loves a good bedtime story.

One of the books we got him was about pirates and buried treasure.

X marks the spot and all that.

Always buried isn’t it?

Never just out there on show.

That’s treasure for you.

And not just of the gold coins in a wooden box variety.

All treasure in life is somewhat buried.

Takes some effort to get to it.

We don’t just randomly stumble across it.

The body and energy levels we desire.

The mood, the happiness and more.

The life in general.

Sure, we can ‘work smarter’.

Do the equivalent of using a spade (or a JCB) instead of a spoon.

Go for the big bang for your buck options.

Highest return on investment and all that.

But it’s always going to be buried.

If it wasn’t, we’d have it already.

And we’ll require some effort to get to it

Much love,

‘Long’ Jon Hall

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