The One Word You Need to Succeed in 2022

Can one word really exemplify what you need to succeed in 2022?

I think so. Because taking action that gets you slightly out of your comfort zone has always been the key to change.

So the one word is … move.

Fitness is an obvious application. At this time of year, fitness and work out resolutions often top the lists.

If we move our bodies in the right ways, a growing body of evidence suggests we might live with greater stamina, purpose and cognitive clarity for many years to come. And it may not take much movement.

One of the biggest findings from last year’s fitness research is just how little you need to move to gain health benefits. But I’m not saying stay small, I’m saying start small.

Most resolutions fail due to a lack of motivation. We think we need motivation to begin and continue, and this mysterious force often fades after a shockingly short period of time.

Move to Get Motivated

Part of that is starting too big. It can be hard to feel motivated when you’ve created a tortuous task for yourself. Add to that the way we expect motivation to work, and it’s no wonder we so often fail.

In other words, you don’t get motivated to move. You move to get motivated. And that’s why starting small is so smart, because we now know that small efforts have tangible benefits and they create the broader motivation to keep going.

Once you realize this, you see that it’s not just fitness goals. Taking the first of many small steps will get your investment portfolio working harder for you, help you learn a new language, or lead to your own business.

Now, add to this what we’ve talked about how accountability drastically boosts success rates along with rewards and motivating messages. And then you have Well + Wealthy, the new Further community that will help you burn, learn, and earn.

When Well + Wealthy goes live, you’ll be able to join at a price that is surprisingly low. But you can also earn your way in by recommending Further with your unique referral link:

(Subscribers Only — Join Us here)

For every legitimate subscriber you refer, you earn $5 USD in $MOVE coin — Further’s branded cryptocurrency that fuels our rewards system. Sound weird?

Your kids will likely “play to earn” this year for in-app purchases in games thanks to branded cryptocurrencies and NFTs. There are predictions that a major reward program (think Starbucks) will shift to a branded cryptocurrency concept in 2022.

This is the same thing. We’re just ahead of the curve a bit (you should expect no less from Further).

And once you’re in Well + Wealthy, you’ll earn more $MOVE simply for taking small steps toward your chosen goals. That will allow you to grab new community-designed gear and special access to new programs and products as they become available.

How it Works

Once you share your link and refer subscribers to Further, this is how you claim your $MOVE:

1. First create a Rally.io account here (if you already have a Rally account you can skip to step 2)
2. Once your account is created please locate your Rally Network Id, which can be found by clicking the profile icon on the top right of the Rally platform (see here).
3. Next, enter the email address you subscribe to Further with along with your Rally Network ID into this form.
4. We’ll now be able to send you $5 USD worth of $MOVE coin for every subscriber you send to Further!

The Year in Fitness: Shorter Workouts, Greater Clarity, Longer Lives

Keep going-

Brian Clark

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It’s Time to Embrace Being Out of Control

By Trudi Roth

If we’ve learned anything from the pandemic, it’s control is an illusion. During our first family vacation in two(+) years in Costa Rica, I’ve been vividly reminded of that.

¡Pura Vida! quickly became ¡Pura Covida!, as my vaccinated/boosted daughter tested positive a few days into the trip. My positive diagnosis came four days later, despite obsessive precautions. As I write this, I’m still nursing mild symptoms and hard questions, with only a vague idea of when the government-ordered, successive 10-day quarantines will end.

So, what to make of the two preceding years marked by abundant caution and sacrifice?

First: you can’t control the uncontrollables. Which begs the question: what do you have dominion over?

4,000 Weeks of Choices

Here’s an exercise to kick off a new year, week, or day:

You are asked to imagine having only a year left to live, at your present mental and bodily capacity — what would you do with it?

Now, apply that to a month or even an hour. Viewed that way, the to-don’ts likely far outnumber the to-dos. Our busyness, or “modern cult of productivity” as Maria Popova puts it, can be seen as a colossal pyramid scheme that diverts our precious resources from pursuing passion and purpose.

Similarly, author Oliver Burkeman reminds us in Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals that an 80-year or so existence offers both too little and more than enough time, depending on the extent to which you keep life from “shoulding” all over you.

I don’t think the feeling of anxiety ever completely goes away; we’re even limited, apparently, in our capacity to embrace our limitations. But I’m aware of no other time management technique that’s half as effective as just facing the way things truly are.

In other words, stop being overwhelmed by seemingly infinite choices. Instead, ground yourself in the power of the few decisions you actually have.

Here Comes the Twister

As a meditation teacher, I’ve studied transcending thoughts and living in the present moment. The concept of being spirit having a human experience is never so obvious as when you find yourself in another part of the world, infected with the thing you’ve fought to avoid, no easy resolution in sight.

And so, as Burkeman urges, lean into your limitations. That means recognizing FOMO is inevitable, using procrastination to make better choices, and learning to settle for what’s best, not perfect. We’ve always got at least 99 problems… but making a switch ain’t one.

So while this isn’t the vacation I’d envisioned, it’s apparently the one I needed. After all, time isn’t holding up or after us — might as well head into the blue again. (That’s your cue to take the day off…me, I’m hitting an isolated beach.)

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