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Samuel E Wake

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Culture is everything. October is the start of a new training block for Method, called SET A NEW STANDARD.
Summer is over. Now we build.
This season establishes the new standard for what our members are capable of.
We want to see your top end strength increase.
- A weight that used to feel heavy becomes working weight.
- Ten toes-to-bar becomes fifteen.
- Getting your first pull-up
- Sets that once required breaks become unbroken.
- Distances get faster.
- What used to be difficult or feel like a limitation becomes normal.

This is what it means to raise the standard. Physically.
But we also want to encourage our members to raise the standard mentally.
We want to encourage you to strengthen your mindset.
Practically this means actively training your attitude. Instead of using the phrase, “I have to”. Replace it with, “I get to.”
* From “I have to wake up early” to “I get to wake up and start another day.”
* From “I have to go to work” to “I get to work and provide.”
* From “I have to make dinner” to “I get to feed my family.”
* From “I have to pick up my kids and sit in that long parent pick-up line.” to “I get to be there for my kids.”
* From “I have to clean the house” to “I get to take care of my home.”
* From “I have to train today” to “I get to see what my body can do today.”
* From “I have to do another set” to “I get another opportunity to get better.”
* From “This is too hard” to “This is supposed to challenge me.”
* From “I’m not good at this” to “I’m getting better.”
* From “I hope I can do it” to “I’m going to figure it out.” by @samwake_

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If you can’t see the beauty in this you need a lemon shake up. There is something mythical about the simplicity of a small town fair.

People being present. More of this.

Your breath is borrowed. Live accordingly.

@parkecountyin taken in Rockville, Indiana by @samwake_

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You can keep the excuse or get the result.
You cannot have both.

It’s hard to unhear this wisdom.

Life has been a daily battle between choosing to give up or taking responsibility - blaming things or owning my part.

There are many-more-lots-of-people in my life who will encourage my excuses than those who will challenge me to stop making them.

Culture itself is doing everything it can to convince me to take the easy way.

The list is many…
Quick fix drugs.
Fast food.
Fitting in socially.
A busy schedule.
Avoidance.

All excuses.
All dangerous to my soul.

The hard way is the better way.

I don’t have to go to the gym, I get to.
I don’t have to eat healthy, Iget to.
You don’t have to go to school, you get to.
I don’t have to sit in traffic for three hours, I get to.
I dont have to ___________, I get to.

Dying in my bed many years from now, would I be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, to come back here and tell myself to take responsibility for my life when the world encourages me to make excuses.

✅ @indyirongames

📸@al.wakeee by @samwake_

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Finally some weather I can get behind. It’s Raise The Standard season. Into the strength building cave we go.
@methodmadefitness taken in Method Made Fitness by @samwake_

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It’s funny…..

I don’t know how to use AI. “They” tell me I need to be using it though!

“They” say it can help me build my business.

“They” say it will do things for me.
It will create for me.
It can be my personal assistant.
It can field calls for me.
It can sell for me.
It can organize my calendar for me.

But I don’t want it to do those things for me.

I like making things myself. I like not knowing how to do something and then putting in the work to learn how to do it.
I like talking to customers myself.
I like working with real people.
Heck….. I like….. working.

I am getting to the point where I prefer emails with typos.

I am not really interested in any of that.

Give me handshakes. Let’s make eye contact. Let’s sweat together. Let’s be bad at things together.

I am cool letting the world pass me up. by @samwake_

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So… what are you waiting for?
@methodmadefitness by @samwake_

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Suffering is a difficult teacher. by @samwake_

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Lots of barbell cycling this month. The am pushing outside my comfort zone and having some with it. by @samwake_

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Discipline is the key to life.

@methodmadefitness by @samwake_

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Proud of the boys today. They truly are a picture of what’s possible. There is not many men like them out there.

Fathers.
Leaders.
Professionals.

Men willing to suffer for something good. Men willing to serve. I could go on and on about these guys.

They put others first and find time to be disciplined in their training. They show up to their value system no matter how they feel.

Few have their level of consistency. Who they are behind closed doors and how they act in the public square is consistent.

They are men of their words and keepers of their promises.

You will never hear them say a rude thing about another person. They don’t talk poorly of others. They are timely. They respect those they engage. They take their life serious but they don’t take life too serious.

In my opinion they embody the phrase, “Your breath is borrowed. Live accordingly.”

You will struggle to find men as good as them. They walk on the narrow path that few travel. Brick by brick they are building a life without regrets pursuing a future they can be truly proud of. They are leaving nothing undone.

Men of the now, present and determined.

These men are proof that there is no worthy excuse for neglecting a life of discipline.

It’s only the undisciplined who scoff, complain, and pretend they don’t have time to become good men.

These are good men. I am proud I get to be a part of their life.

@methodmadefitness by @samwake_

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Good day of training in the books. Glad to do it with family. Nobody gets out alive. Live accordingly.

@methodmadefitness by @samwake_

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If you’re tired of sitting in the stands with a biscuit in your hands. Shoot me a message. I would love to coach you.
@methodmadefitness taken in Bloomingdale, Indiana by @samwake_

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