Connor Stine

Rehab Chiropractor

Teaching people to take hold of their own health and create the life they dreamed of via food, community, and movement.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

So here it, the truth that no one wants to hear but everyone needs to.

There is no secret.

Just the basic, boring work done with care, repeated endlessly, refined slowly.

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

The best lives aren’t perfectly optimized.
They’re deeply lived.

They have room for messiness, spontaneity, and joy.

When we stop trying to squeeze efficiency out of every second, we rediscover the reason we wanted to optimize in the first place: to feel alive.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Most of us have a dysfunctional relationship with social media.

We log on to “check one thing”—and emerge 40 minutes later feeling scattered, behind, and strangely hollow.

But what if the issue isn’t just time spent online…

It’s how we use that time.

Here’s a framework to help you use social media instead of it using you:

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Which brings us to Shedeur’s next steps. It will depend less on where he was drafted, and more on why he keeps showing up.

When things finally get hard, entitlement gets exposed—or it gets transformed.

The real question is, “When adversity hits, do you adapt, persist, and commit deeper to the work?”

That’s what separates those who last from those who fade.

Real growth starts when the world humbles you—and you choose to stay in the fight anyway.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

We need more people to…

Play sports
Go fishing
Create art
Build something tangible.

Our world has emphasized passive watching.

We need more active doing. It provides agency, we see progress, it’s often with others, and there’s an end result.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Whether it's kids and youth sports.

Or adults and the cult of optimization...

We need more recess.

We need meaningful activities without a specific aim.

Look at our hobbies. We've increasingly shifted towards observing past times, instead of participating.

We watch sports, instead of play them.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

We’ve convinced ourselves that everything we do has to have a productive outcome:

Kids play sports to get the scholarship...
Adults pursue passions to make $$...
We exercise to increase our fitness score...

We’ve turned going for a walk with our dog, taking a nap, or eating breakfast into something we do to get a better score on our activity tracker.

The cult of optimization and productivity has converted living life into a job scored by an external measure.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

We need to take time to do things with little point besides joy will remind you how to get back into exploration mode where you can be oblivious, free from the harsh comparison points that influence so much of our lives.

Bring back play...for all of us. Our kids desperately need it. But so do us adults.

We need more activities where the point is to explore and enjoy, not achieve an outcome.

[Connor Stine @StineyStine]

@stevemagness What would you propose the government do instead?

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

A vital ingredient in life: Have some clear your mind time.

Mine is running. No phone, music, devices. Just me, alone with my thoughts, in nature.

Clear your mind time = Space where your mind can drift and wander freely. It's not drawn to or distracted by technology.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

How you do one thing is NOT how you do everything.

Even the incredibly driven are very lazy on some things. They cut corners, don't follow through, show up late.

But...on things that matter, they can flip the switch.

[Connor Stine @StineyStine]

@Gareth_Sandford That's your assessment/screening?

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

A new meta-analysis on the impact of goal setting on performance found:

1. Process goals had a large effect on performance
2. Performance goals had a moderate effect
3. Outcome goals had a negligible effect

[Gareth Sandford @Gareth_Sandford]

• Sprinting - maximal effort

• Moderate intensity (critical speed) - 5-6/10 effort.

• Low intensity continuous - 2-3/10

• Strength/plyometric training - addressing movement gaps

• Occasional high intensity (8-10/10)

And be consistent, mix variety and combinations.

[Alan Bishop @CoachAlanBishop]

Work hard. Be a good person.

Things will find a way to fall into place.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

If you use exercise as punishment, you are just teaching your athletes to hate exercise.

It's lazy. It shifts the athlete to avoidance motivation.

And research shows such a style actually leads to worse discipline.

So let's just stop.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Move Your Body Often, Sometimes Hard, Every Bit Counts

If exercise could be bottled up and sold as a drug, it would be a billion-dollar blockbuster.

Get outside and move regularly. What type of exercise? Do what you enjoy! Even better if it's with people you enjoy!

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

We need more adversity in life.

Not the uncontrollable kind, of bad things happening to us.

But the kind where we have some semblance of control, where we can put forth effort to try to overcome, manage, or accept.

Think: New or challenging hobbies or athletic endeavors.

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

Everyone wants to be SUCCESSFUL. But few people take the time and energy to define the success they want. As a result, they spend most, if not all, of their lives chasing what society superimposes on them as success.

Define your values. Craft a life around them. THAT is success.