GRAHAM SNOWFIELD

NLP Weekly: Making your leadership & performance second nature. 

Performance: You make a decision every 12 seconds.

Okay, not exactly. I'm currently reading Endure by Alex Hutchison. It focuses primarily on human physical endurance - running, mountain climbing, adventure pursuits, explorers, etc. 

In Endure, Hutchinson discusses how any activity that lasts longer than approximately 12 seconds demands a conscious decision to continue. Once an activity exceeds that 12-second threshold, energy reserves shift. The brain steps in more actively gauging factors such as fatigue, pain, breathing, and perceived effort. 

Your decision-making to keep going becomes an ongoing process, with the brain assessing how much energy and effort are available and weighing this against the potential for exhaustion.

“Endurance” is not just physical. It is a mental capacity to persist. The longer the activity continues, the more your brain engages in this “decision-making” role, constantly evaluating and e...

Unintentionally (at least initially), from July 1, 2021 to March 26, 2024, I have spent at least 4 hours moving outside. Every. Single. Day.

This never started as a goal. I took all of July and the first week of August 2021 off work to rest & recover, to explore location options for Wild Walks and spend some time with my wife before our daughter was born.

Fast forward about 580 days and I started to do some math.

I knew I was spending 3+ hours outside every day with our dog and either another 1+ hour outside with my horse or another 1+ hour every day on the phone. Often it would be both.

February 2023, I thought I might be approaching 500 consecutive days. I realized I was closing in on 600. Speaking with a friend, I knew that it was realistic for me to get to Thanksgiving 2023 without breaking the streak. From there, it would be a question of the winter from November 2023 to March 2024.

Ironically, the worse the weather, the more likely I am spending 4+ hours outside. This comes ...