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Welcome to the Primal Blog. Our goal is to give you simple, actionable, and easy-to-digest information weekly. We will share our quotes of the week, journal prompts of the week, visualization prompts of the week, meals of the week, and much more. Thanks for following along, be sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter @primalbsbl. Tune into our podcast "The Man in the Arena" on Apple Podcasts. 

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Book Quote of the Week

Book: The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

Quote:

"Always Say Less Than Necessary - When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish" (Greene 31).

Personal Analysis:

 It's always great to speak about your visions and dreams. However we must protect them as well. Only share them with those who share the same energy and frequency. Sharing with too many people, especially those who are jealous may only hurt. The less you speak, the less you let others know, the more interested they will be in learning about who you are. Mystery is a beautiful thing. When everyone knows everything about us and our plans moving forward, there's nothing to figure out or be interested in. Keep some in the dark.  It's also important to remember that saying what you are going to do is a whole lot different than actually doing it. We say we are going to do a lot because it feels good, yet we've accomplished nothing yet. Keep the dreams within your small circle, let people make assumptions and guesses about you. Let them think while you work and become.

Meal/Recipe of the Week

Rack of Lamb with Roasted Vegetables

Ingredients:

 Rack of Lamb, Roasted Carrots, Onions, Greens Beans, and Broccoli

Recipe:

Preheat the Oven to 350 degrees. Lay vegetables on a baking sheet, add salt, pepper, and any other desired spice. Cook vegetables until crisp. 

Season lamb with any rub or spices you prefer. Preheat the Oven to 450 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes for rare, and 25 for medium rare. 

Serve and enjoy.

Lamb is a fun way to change up your fueling options. A little fattier than other red meat, it tastes great rare and adds some extra fat to your body. Fat helps protect your vital organs, store energy, supply you with vitamins and fatty acids, and act as a messenger to help protein do its job. All fat is not to be feared, animal fats can provide us fuel for our performance.

Journal and Visualization Prompt of the Week

Journal Prompt:

What are 3 daily tasks you can accomplish that will allow you to grow closer to your dreams/vision? How can you implement them into your routine?

Visualization Prompt:

Visualize your end goal. Visualize your end goal at the top of a staircase. Visualize yourself climbing steps to the goal, and make sure to include falling off, or getting knocked down. Watch yourself stand up and climb again. Visualize yourself experiencing the feeling of making it. Giving it everything you had and coming away successful. Done. Open your eyes and execute.

Baseball Thought/Key of the Week

Creativity 

There are so many amazing things that you can accomplish with a throwing program or a strength and conditioning program. Progressing using them as a tool is an essential part of being a baseball player. The one thing we must be careful of is, losing individuality and creativity. As kids we were constantly outside, jumping, running around, creating games, creating pitch grips. We were not always following a certain plan with steps laid out for us. We created things as we went along. In training, we must find some similarity to that again. We must break the rules, and avoid the guidelines and outlines placed in front of us.  The growth we have as kids is exponential, we pick things up quickly, not necessarily from training but from playing and experimenting. Kids go to the park and play wiffleball for hours, learning new random patterns that are unpredictable. This forces them to adjust and adapt. If we take that away and give them a plan and a certain path they need to follow, how will they think for themselves, how will they learn the processes to achieve the results? Don't you see it was never giving them the results or steps it was allowing them to build the processes to climb the steps themselves.

Song of the Week

Not Afraid by Eminem