Personal Growth – A-Team Fitness

Escape the Trap of ‘Just Good Enough’: Why Being Worse-Off Might Be the Best Thing for Change

By: Alex McBrairty March 21, 2023March 19, 2023

Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Motivation, Weight Lossbettering yourself, getting unstuck, making changes, Motivation, overcoming complacency, Personal Growth, pushing yourself, Self-Development, self-improvement, taking actionLeave a Comment

Reading Time: < 1 minute Learn why being in a state of “just good enough” can be the worst place to be and how it can trap individuals in ambivalence.

10 – Minute Mindset Lessons, Volume VI: Persistence, Discipline, & Ideas Worth Sharing

By: Alex McBrairty November 11, 2022November 9, 2022

Lifestyle, Mindset, MotivationDiscipline, Fitness Psychology, Ideas, Lifestyle, Mindset, Motivation, Persistence, Personal Growth, Psychology, Self-DevelopmentLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ten more insights and perspectives to help shift your mindset for greater success.

10 – Minute Mindset Lessons, Volume V: Progress, Decisions, Oversimplifications, and more

By: Alex McBrairty July 22, 2022July 20, 2022

MindsetExercise, Fitness, Fitness Psychology, Growth Mindset, Mindset, Mindset Lessons, Personal GrowthLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 6 minutes 10 mindset lessons to help you approach your goals with better perspective.

10 – Minute Mindset Lessons: Volume II

By: Alex McBrairty December 5, 2021December 4, 2021

Mindset, MotivationFitness, Fitness Psychology, Growth Mindset, Health, Identity, Mindset, Mindset Lessons, Personal Growth, Psychology, Self-worth, vulnerability, Weight LossLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Diversify your self-worth portfolio.Putting all your eggs in one basket can be a financial disaster. If all your money is in one investment that fails, you lose everything. Similarly, don’t put all your “self-worth” investment into one basket. If the bathroom scale or mirror is the one quality that determines how you feel about yourself,…

10 – Minute Mindset Lessons: Volume I

By: Alex McBrairty October 24, 2021October 23, 2021

Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, MotivationFitness, Fitness Psychology, Growth Mindset, Habit Change, Habits, Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Psychology, Psychology of Change, Weight LossLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 4 minutes Gain new insights into your health and mindset with ten minute-long ideas.

Pain, Adventure, & The Mundane: The Identity Shaping Power of Our Experiences

Reading Time: 8 minutes Research suggests that experiences, not material goods, are the key to happiness. They provide a more lasting form of happiness and, as we’ll see in this article, play a key role in shaping our identity.

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Observations From An International-Traveling Newbie

By: Alex McBrairty October 11, 2018October 11, 2018

Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Nutrition, TravelCarbs, Fitness, International Travel, Language, Learning, Nutrition, Personal Growth, Spain, Travel, Travel LessonsLeave a Comment

Reading Time: 5 minutes Lessons from an international-traveling newbie.

One Daily Practice To Immediately Improve Your Life

Reading Time: 3 minutes I want to talk briefly about an often overlooked daily activity. Like many things, we get busy in the hustle and bustle of the day-to-day and forget to pause and reflect. I want to talk to you about the power of gratitude. Today, after a headache of a morning that included getting stuck in construction traffic,…

From Fat Kid To Fitness Competitor, Vol 2:

By: Alex McBrairty April 12, 2018October 15, 2020

Mindset, MotivationFitness, Fitness Goals, Growth, Life Lessons, Mindset, Motivation, Personal Growth, Physique, Self-Discovery, self-improvement1 Comment

Reading Time: 9 minutes From Liberation To Self-Discovery Discovering that oftentimes it is the growth you experience during the journey that matters far more than the achievement itself. In, From Fat Kid To Fitness Competitor, I wrote about the liberation of an obese kid from his past struggles with weight loss and low self-esteem. This story is the sequel…