Leg Days
They’re the toughest day in the gym.
Overcoming this challenge, however, helps every muscle in your body grow.
That’s why exercisers committed to seeing results intentionally include leg day in their weekly routines.
Life has its own “leg days.”
These are the days filled with challenges you intentionally sign up for in order to grow the capacity of your brain, body, and beliefs.
The harder the challenge, the greater the opportunity for growth.
While some of these challenges are complex, others are surprisingly simple.
But note—“simple” and “easy” are not the same thing.
Life offers us countless opportunities for growth every day.
When embracing these challenges becomes part of your routine, life will begin to deliver the results you’re looking for.
Here are some of life’s “leg days”—challenges that can help expand the capacity of your brain, body, and beliefs:
- Be kind to someone who hasn’t been kind to you
- Take action when you don’t feel like it
- Practice compassion, even when you feel someone doesn’t “deserve” it
- Commit to understanding the opposition’s argument
- Take action despite fear
- Be the most solutions-oriented person in the room
- Practice gratitude when things aren’t going your way
- When emotions run high, base your communication on values
- Forgive
- Do something you’ve never done before
- Audit your routine
- Listen more than you talk
- Publicly commit to a goal, then figure out how to make it happen
- Treat the first day of the week like the first day of the year
- Admit to a mistake
- Train patience by standing in the longest line at the grocery store
- Make a promise to yourself and keep it
- Stop celebrating “busy”
- Say “no”
- Say “yes”
Don’t skip life’s opportunities for the leg days that can help us become stronger, wiser, and more resilient.
