Authors: Joe De Sena,Jeff O'Connell
Will is your biggest hurdle. Discipline is your biggest strength. De Sena and O’Connell teach how you can master these two and achieve “obstacle immunity”. Their insights will drag you out of the comfort zone and prepare you to face the battle of life. Based on lessons learnt from the Spartan race, the authors will help you reach your highest potential in every area of life.
Video Review of Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life by Joe De Sena,Jeff O'Connell
Quotes & Tips from Spartan Up
Feed your Spirit
Deep inside each human being is a spirit that hungers for movement and for growth. A live and burgeoning ball of energy, the spirit naturally moves, expands, gyrates—dances, even—purely by virtue of its desire for freedom. It craves beauty over entertainment, meaning over triviality, and knowledge over sensation. American society devotes few harbors to the trade of truth. Too often we sacrifice the pursuit of knowledge, distracted instead by sparkling material things.
The embrace of consumerism and convenience tends to lead to emptiness of the spirit and sickness of the mind and body.
Focus on the Journey
These achievements ring hollow, because what matters is the journey, and there was no journey. Instant success imparts nothing of any real or lasting value. No adversity has been confronted and handled because everything came fast and easy. When adversity does arrive, and it always does, someone who has never encountered it before will have no clue what to do in response.
Positive Peer pressure
Once you sign up for a Spartan Race, once you tell all of your friends about it, you, too, are committed. To back out is to admit failure not only to yourself but also to others. This should motivate you to honor your commitment and show up at the starting line ready to race.
Put in the Effort
You can either go to bed satisfied with your efforts today or stressed with what you left for tomorrow. You can either work hard to take on the hill or never know what it is that people see at the top.
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