Strong bodies and strong minds

Sure, you’re lying on your back, desperately gasping for breath, vision swimming, heart pounding, probably dying… But somewhere in the back of your mind you’re standing tall.

Pride swells your chest as you look back on the pain you endured and the hurdles you leapt to earn this moment. And you find yourself thinking… “Yeah, I just did that.”

I absolutely love that feeling.

It’s a reward well worth the pain invested to receive it.

But these days, I don’t workout just to keep my body strong or to get my “feeling of accomplishment” fix. It’s nice to feel strong, don’t get me wrong, but these days I mostly workout to make myself a better writer.

Don’t follow? Let me explain…

Are you not entertained?

We all know the iconic scene from the movie Gladiator: when Maximus (then known as The Spaniard) defeats six opponents single-handedly in just over one minute.

He had given the crowd the blood that they wanted, but as the dust settled after the one-sided battle, he wasn’t rewarded with the thundering applause he had come to expect—instead his actions were met with shocked silence. Frustrated at this lack of reaction, Maximus hurls his sword into the stands, spreads his arms wide, and asks the question that would be forever immortalized in the minds of 90’s babies around the world.

“Are you not entertained?”

Choose to Write

There is an old writer’s proverb that goes something like…   “A good writer writes every day.”   When I was first exposed to this idea I took it for granted, thinking that it only applied to professionals and people who made their living writing. After all, it made sense that professional writers wrote every day, that’s their job. I …