Intentional living to achieve your divine potential - Rob Smith video

[Original_Intent]

This one struck me, maybe awesome video or maybe just what I personally needed to hear.

[Telavian]

I remember the franklin planner craze of the late 90's. This seems like the same thing.
If you are intentional with your life then we can accomplish a lot more. Totally agree.

Honestly, though why does this video have to be almost 1 hour long?

[Chip]

I remember the franklin planner craze of the late 90's. This seems like the same thing.
If you are intentional with your life then we can accomplish a lot more. Totally agree.

Honestly, though why does this video have to be almost 1 hour long?

Rob said he gets up super early, like 1:30am after going to bed at 8pm. He needs to do this fit in the Lord's work, as well as his own for his family. He does get a lot done, I'm sure. It's kind of a funny irony, though, that it takes him so long to explain things.

[Telavian]

Rob said he gets up super early, like 1:30am after going to bed at 8pm. He needs to do this fit in the Lord's work, as well as his own for his family. He does get a lot done, I'm sure. It's kind of a funny irony, though, that it takes him so long to explain things.

Maybe I have gotten lazy over the years however I used to be like that and certainly accomplished a lot in my 20's and 30's.
However now I have realized that without adequate sleep I just can't function. To compensate I would need caffeine or something similar.
This is totally unsustainable.

I think during the summer we may sleep a little less and during the winter sleep a little more, but sleep is foundational to our entire existence.

[Telavian]

Rob said he gets up super early, like 1:30am after going to bed at 8pm. He needs to do this fit in the Lord's work, as well as his own for his family. He does get a lot done, I'm sure. It's kind of a funny irony, though, that it takes him so long to explain things.

Obtaining information through videos feels so primitive to me. I understand that not everyone is the same. However, I honestly don't really have 1 hour to watch a video every day or two. I know Rob writes in his blog, however that seems to be a very small fraction of his videos.

If information is so vital, then I would think he would condense it into a blog post and then expound on it in the videos. However, it seems the blog and YT channel are for 2 totally different audiences.

[Original_Intent]

I totally relate to the long videos concern. I just always have an audiobook or a video like this on while I do other things. I think I am able to give the video or audiobook due diligence while I am working on something else.

What Rob said about sticking with something reminded me of in my late teens and early twenties I got involved in weight lifting and martial arts.

In weightlifting when I started out, bench pressing 135 lbs a few times was very difficult. (this is one 45lb.b plate on each end and a 45 lb. bar.)
I had a dream that one day I would bench press "3 plates" which is 315 lbs. Which is a respectable weight for an amatuer.

It was surprising to me how quickly the early gains were (my friend and I went at it pretty hardcore + we had a good partner in each other so that we always had a spotter and we were great at pushing each other to the limits.) So we were both benching 2 plates (225) in probably six months and probably in the high 200s in about a year. That last 40 or 50 lbs came a LOT slower, even with remaining very consistent and pushing our limits. But just like Rob talked about, I just locked in that it WAS going to happen, I knew this last bit was going to be harder and take longer than the gains so far. Didn't matter. In my mind it simply was going to happen.

And it did. In fact on one day when I was feeling extra pumped, I got two reps at 315.

Anyway, Rob's video really triggered the desire in me to lock in on some goals and make that same type of commitment. (Maybe more meaningful goals, which is even better, although the difficult thing is sometimes measuring internal growth and having a way of knowing that you definitely achieved a certain thing is difficult.