Fit Jerk Friday: Quinoa with Spinach

But at other times, it’s a problem. Because it makes everyone lazy. An unlimited resource of help means fewer people are blazing their own trails. Just because something has worked once, everyone jumps on this bandwagon and tries to replicate and duplicate instead of innovate. It’s bull and it will only get you as far as it got the original person. No wait, it wont get you as far because it’s already been done!

Look at the “money making blogs” out there. The trail blazers are the 6 figure bloggers that are earning the cash and doing it right, taking chances etc. Then look at all the “followers”. They’re doing the exact same stuff. Yes I know it works for the big boys, but if you want to compete, you CANNOT do what they’re doing.  You need to go above and beyond. Take your own path and do you own thing from time to time.

Do you know why Google is ON TOP? Because while they make their engineers focus on the main task at hand (search and ads), they also give them X amount of hours where they let them run free and wild. This allows the engineers to come up with some incredible products and technology and showcase it to the world (known as Google Labs). This move is absolutely brilliant. Google was the first to come up with an incredible search engine, an incredible text-ad program and in my opinion, one of the best open source platforms for the cell phone in the current times (sorry Symbian fans… you were one of the first but your innovation hit the brick wall a long time ago).

It’s the same story when it comes to fitness. Yes I spend time reading the studies, successful training programs and diet advice… and you should too. But this is NEVER absolute. I’m still figuring out new ways to achieve goals every time I hit the gym. Sometimes I go against convention because I can … just to see what happens and I end up with some incredible new techniques and training methods… at other times I end up with pretty much nothing. But at least now I know what works and what doesn’t – FIRST HAND. And this experience is invaluable.

So it’s about time you started doing your own thing. Don’t be such a mindless sheep… beat to the sound of your own drum every now and then and you’ll end up with a skill set that is all your own.

Remember – as a species we are all similar, but as individuals we are quite unique.

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