Be Courageous. Be Coachable.

You don’t have to be athletic, intelligent, young, rich, or genetically blessed. You just have to be courageous.

No one ever said you had to enjoy being bad. You just have to be willing.

Unless you don’t want to improve. Then feel free to stay in the rut of the familiar, watching others succeed.

And not just at fitness, at life.

Those especially mindful go a step further and present themselves as the perpetual beginner. They ask for help. More importantly, they listen.

That’s courage — the mother of all virtues — the only skill you need to be coachable.

You don’t have to be athletic, intelligent, young, rich, or genetically blessed. You just have to be courageous enough to be coachable.

That’s how you get better.

That’s how life gets better.

“It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness. It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter. When you are tightly boxed in or cornered — all too often by your own stubborn and fixed adherence to some unconsciously worshipped assumptions — all there is to help you is what you have not yet learned. It is necessary and helpful to be, and in some ways to remain, a beginner.” — Jordan Peterson, Beyond Order