The FRED Super-Acronym makes the improvement industry easier to use. The idea is to assemble the best ideas in the history of the civilization with regards to fitness, abundance, and happiness and make them easier to access, remember, and apply!!
What are the fundamentals of success? And, if they are fundamentals, shouldn't they be easy to identify? I've spent years reading books, taking classes, interviewing people, and learning about fitness, abundance, and happiness. I've created the FRED Super Acronym because I wanted to make it easier to remember the concepts that I saw over and over again.
Whereas the previous goal was to put 1000 books into a weekend, I wanted to put them into an acronym.
Mike Tyson famously said, "Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face." The improvement industry has many great books, teachers, and insights. The challenge is that life often makes us feel like we are getting punched in the face. When this happens we are too busy recovering, blocking punches, and or ducking out of the way to try and remember the great information we might have learned. Rather than sitting down to re-read a book, or re-listen to a TED Talk, this super acronym makes it easier to remember the fundamentals of fitness abundance and happiness.
FITFANTASY RESILIENT EXPLOIITS DECA
FITFANTASY: Organizes the best ideas about losing fat, gaining muscle, getting stronger, etc.
Festival: The secret weapon is learning to love difficult exercises Irritation: progressive resistance (increasing reps, sets, exercises, weights) forces muscles to grow; if we progressively irritate our bodies we grow while avoid blisters and injuries
Fluids: virtually all fitness experts recommend drinking a great deal of water Amino Acids: Protein, meat, chicken, protein, carb, fat: 25/65/10 or 25/10/65: and also eat your vitamins Trench: ravine, ecology, no steroids good form..."long term self-interest is the highest & smartest virtue" Affirmation: positive self talk is powerful; Frank Zane defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger with affirmations Reframe: "Things are not good or bad, but thinking makes them so." Old = wisdom, intelligence, experience / Young = youth, energy, vitality, creativity
Tall = see over your competitors / Short= they can’t see you, they can't catch you
Unlucky = makes you stronger / Lucky = lucky… you silly goose… why reframe lucky?
Take the insult and turn it into fuel that feeds your engine
stupid? pathetic? moronic?... replay the video of "them" saying this to motivate yourself
Establish goals: Viktor Frankl & Viktor Herman said goals alone kept them alive: research these people Intelligently think: examine the evidence, check for contradictions, imagine what smart people would do/did Isms: Ivan Pavlov & John Broadus Watson changed the world by learning how to condition dogs & people Eustress not distress: ships in the harbor are safe but muscles & brains expand when they are forced
-without tension there is no harmony
Thanks; give it; amazingly overlooked... taking time to be grateful helps one (many) overcome adversity
Defects: checklists, smarter ideas can often help us engineer them out of your processes
Overproduction:
Work in progress
Non-standardization
Transportation
Inventory
Motion
Excess-Process
Licity is the ultimate core value of process improvement: make simplicity easier for your customers Opposites: Aristotle said wisdom can often be found by considering opposites: courage is found between rashness and cowardliness, consider switching things up: long batch processing then doing one at a time, low reps then high reps, long rests then short rests, opposing exercises, etc.
I = INOVATE Man’s ego is the fountainhead of all human progress and innovation
INVEST
Identify half priced companies
Narrow Down With Numbers
Vail: If the gender was appropriate would you introduce the CEO to your parents?
Earn Money in Multiple Ways
Scuttlebut: Mr.Fisher
Track 1000s of companies to find more better opportunities
Testimonials FIRST
DECA The DECA acronym reminds us about the benefits of following through on our resolutions.
Deity
We often feel closer to what we think of as "the creator" and the entire world as we stick with our worthwhile resolutions.
Education / Enlightenment
Before enlightenment carry water, cut wood. After enlightenment carry water, cut wood.
To educe, to draw out, to develop from within.
Communication
We feel like we can understand, tolerate, appreciate, and even love others more. We can look past their errors, and we ignore them attacking ours. In many cases when we feel as if we are achieving worthy objectives we feel as if we are immune to negativity. We inherently understand what it means to "never mind what haters say, ignore them until they fade away".
Alchemy
We feel like we can create. It’s like a synergy where 1 + 1 = more than 2. It’s like we get more energy, more resources, more time, more quality of life, and somehow even more time.
Again, the DECA acronym is essentially about exploring the same concept from different perspectives. The Deity is connected to Education and Enlightenment, just as it is connected to Communication and Alchemy. When we say that following through on our resolutions makes us feel better our words often get in the way of our meanings. We may talk about things like losing weight, gaining muscle, becoming more productive, etc. but we are really talking about a form of magic.
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