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Arete Warriors – spirit, mind, body strong
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The honest self-check you didn’t know you needed.
This is a newsletter about reaching one’s full potential. Excellence in spirit, mind and body.
You’re here, at least in part, because you care about improving.
Hopefully you genuinely like who you are, but if I were to ask you where or how you need to improve you could probably give me a list of things you’d like to change about yourself.
We’ve talked about the domino effect (changing one habit can set many others in motion) and today I’m going to give you a gift to find out what your first domino might be.
Let’s Prepare – the warm up
The Arete Warrior Motto is, I choose my thoughts. I control my actions. I chase my full potential.
In the first week of the program we assess where we currently are. We use this Kid’s Wheel in the kids’ program and this more elaborate one for the moms.
There is a lot of room in here for self assessment and notes. I really advise you take some time to dig into the questions and prompts before giving your rating in each category.
You might be surprised.
In case you’ve never done a “wheel” like this, the idea is to rate yourself in each area then connect the dots.
If everything is about the same, your wheel will be similar to a circle. If everything is a 2, your wheel is not going to get you very far per revolution. Moving along in life will take more work and effort.
If every area is an 8 or 9, life is GOOD!
But if one of your categories gets a 2 and all others are an 8, that’s going to make for a bumpy ride. It would be smart to work on extending that 2 a bit. 😉
Let’s Work – the exercise
Get quiet. Truly, decompress. Step away from the chaos to give yourself some time and silence to complete this worksheet thoughtfully.
I have some prompts to help you dig in a bit.
Obviously, depending on the age and willingness of your children, it would be fun to have them do theirs as well.
I recently recorded this interview and I talk in here about how self-reflective and aware Izak has always been. I do believe it was at least in part because I was always open with him about what I was learning and practicing in these areas.
I’m not taking the credit, but I have found the earlier a kid is introduced to these ideas the more receptive they seem to be.
And again, you are giving them a gift to model for them what it looks like to constantly work on yourself. You are showing them that becoming better or more doesn’t just happen. It takes effort.
I’d love to hear from you on this. BONUS – Learning which categories most of you need to improve will help direct future topics for these emails.
