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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, Facebook, 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: It Takes What It Takes by Trevor Moawad

Quote:

"We all want things, and there's value to that; want is a precursor to motivation. But want is an idea. Commitment is an execution. (Moawad 65).

Personal Analysis:

 Talking about something is easy. Doing it is harder. Doing it over and over and over and over again, that's extremely hard. It feels good to talk about dreams and goals. We should share dreams and visions with those around us who have our best interests in mind. To go around sharing with everybody you see, may not give you the best chance to succeed. Wanting is very different than doing. Getting up day after day and committing to the action, to the process. That's what it is about. As you make it past the first few days or weeks of excitement, you may hit roadblocks. The goal doesn't seem so close anymore, you are sore, tired, sick. Your friends want to go party, you want to stay up late to watch that new movie. All of that is fine, and you should enjoy it all deeply, but in the morning rent is due. There's a reason few people rise to the top. Those people do what others will not. They sacrifice what others will not. Wanting is one thing, doing is another. Less talk, let the work talk. Win in the dark. When no one sees you. When no one is thinking about you. When you are an afterthought. Have intention with the work, things will come to you.

Meal/Recipe of the Week

Ground Beef Nachos

Ingredients:

 One package of corn Tortillas,  1 lb of Ground Beef,  1 block of Cheddar Cheese, 1 Sweet Onion, Olive Oil

Recipe:

Preheat the Oven to 350 degrees. Cut tortillas down the middle from both sides (making 4 pieces). Lay them on a baking sheet. Brush the tortilla slices with olive oil. Add salt, pepper, and any other desired spices. Cook tortillas until they start to brown.  

While tortillas are cooking. Season ground beef with any rub or spices you prefer. Cook ground beef on the stovetop. Chop or dice a sweet onion. Add to ground beef and cook. Check Tortillas and flip them. Adding light olive oil to the other side.

Grate Cheddar Cheese.

Once tortillas are golden brown on each side take them out and add all toppings. Put back in the oven on High broil.

Serve and enjoy.

Nachos are a party pleaser and a great plate to share with friends and family. It is not hard to make food that is good for you taste good. Adding a lot of protein to the nachos allows you to have a fun, enjoyable meal and get a sufficient amount of protein for you and the family. Food is fuel and fuel should be something you enjoy. If it tastes bad, you probably aren't going to be excited to eat it. Expanding your fueling options can help you get excited about cooking and sharing dinner with others.

Journal and Visualization Prompt of the Week

Journal Prompt:

What is the far-reaching goal you have for yourself? Where do you see yourself in a month? A year? 5 years? 10 years? How will you ensure you work towards those things daily?

Visualization Prompt:

Visualize your ideal self in a month. Visualize zooming out. Now see yourself in 6 months. Zoom out even more. See yourself in a year. See the things you are doing, the characteristics you have. The environment around you. The routines you have. Zoom out, what do you look like in 5 years. Who is still around you, what are you doing? Now last zoom, look 10 years from now. What is still important to you then? What is not?

Baseball Thought/Key of the Week

Backward to Go Forward 

 Baseball and life seem to have concepts intertwined at every corner. In the pitching delivery, we must move backward to move forward efficiently and effectively. In order to load and get the results we want, we must move our body back to create momentum to then unwind and snap forward. Similar to a slingshot, we must stretch, load, and explode. In life, we must use the same principle. Many times I have pushed straight forward, into a wall, thinking there was no way around it. Yes, sometimes the way is through the wall. However, many times if I had just stepped back away from the wall, I would have seen there was another path around the wall. When we make up our minds and think we need to go down a specific path, it cuts off all the other paths that open if we just step back, reassess, and analyze our position.

Another viewpoint I want to view this topic from is a coaching standpoint. When a coach sees an issue such as runners stealing on their pitchers. Some may immediately think, "he needs to be quicker to the plate". Does he though? Is that the only option? No. The pitcher can do a number of things, lower the leg kick, mix timing of holds and picks, etc. With the second grouping of options, he now does not need to change a million things in his mechanics and is still able to create good timing and rhythm down the mound. There are always options that we can make work if we step back and adjust.

Song of the Week

We Will Never be This Young Again by Ben Rector