Le Weekly #3 – Lemonade 🍋

One quote, one shoutout, one story, one neigh from Philosophical Horse and one question.

Nov 27, 2023

Greetings everyone. Welcome to Le Weekly!

Take a moment to reflect on each snippet. Comment your thoughts below.

Le Quote 🗣️

“Life has been throwing me some lemons lately, and I’m still figuring out how to make the metaphorical lemonade. I have a whole bunch in my basket; just figuring out the recipe.” – Bruce Rouillard.

Le Shoutout 🧣

Quite a few people are holding baskets filled with lemons at the moment. The cool thing about Bruce’s perspective (above) is that he sees the value and potential in the lemons.

While we seldom know how to make great lemonade, we can reassure ourselves in the knowledge that great lemonade is made from excellent lemons.

The first step in making great lemonade is acknowledging your lemons, taking them out of your basket and squeezing out all the usable juice.

Shoutout Bruce.

Le Story ✍️

Jaydee Rex goes to the gym every morning. He has been on a fitness journey for a while now. He trains hard and shares his small victories with everyone. Despite being highly motivated and disciplined, Jaydee got to a point this year where he felt burnt out. He felt like he didn’t have the energy to do anything. So, he took a day off work and the gym and spent a weekend on a nearby farm.

The weekend away did his soul wonders.

He returned to the gym the following Monday. For some reason, while watching people doing pull-ups on the pull-up bar, he remembered something he had always wanted to do: a “muscle-up”.

For those who don’t know what a muscle-up is, it’s a highly explosive exercise where you hoist your body into the air like an absolute beast and do a push-up on the pull-up bar. Not many people can do one!

So, with a clear vision and the desire to attempt something he wanted to do, Jaydee said to himself, “I will do a muscle-up before the end of the year”.

He had five months.

With the help of his gymnast friend, he started taking small steps. He improved his pull-ups, push-ups, core work, technique, and diet (losing weight helps you launch your entire body into the air like a human trebuchet). Most importantly, he set an achievable goal with achievable daily steps that could be completed in an achievable period.

So, last Tuesday, only four months after he set his goal, Jaydee completed a muscle-up.

He felt proud of his accomplishment! He had officially joined the small group of people worldwide who can do 1x muscle-up!

He celebrated it. Then, without hesitation, he set his sights on being able to do two.

Thankfully, the process behind completing your second muscle-up doesn’t take four months to accomplish; it takes mere days.

Le Neigh from Philosophical Horse 🐴

“For this week’s Neigh, I want to say more than “Neigh”. I want to say “Lemoneigh”? Do you get it? Please add a laughing emoji after the—wait, why are you still writing? Neigh!”

– Philosophical Horse.

Le Comment Section 💬

Last week, Le Question asked: “Whether it’s the whole world or just one person’s world, how can you change the world today?”

Immediately after posting the question, I realised something was missing: “your world”.

It should have read: “Whether it’s the whole world, one person’s world, or your world, how can you change the world today?”

Moments later, an email from my sewing teacher, Mascha, popped up in Le Inbox. It said, “The only world we can change is the one within us, and the only way to change it is by taking full responsibility for our own lives and the fact that we created it.”

If you change your world, you change the world as a result.

Thoughts?

Le Question 🤔

What is a simple, achievable goal that you can start working towards today?

Have a great Monday, everyone!

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