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Living Your Fitness Journey With Intention

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Purpose & Power: Living Your Fitness Journey With Intention Thoughts on Lifestyle: Movement, Nutrition, Longevity, and Performance. — Get Fit. Be Healthy. Stay Confident. — jakelawrence.net abovetheplain.com info@jakelawrence.net 505.715.9316 IG: @xclusivefitness abovetheplain.substack.com

Feb 19

You’re Not A Problem

This reflection begins with being misled by an AI-generated supplement ad and expands into a broader critique of modern society’s habit of manufacturing deficiencies and selling solutions. It explores themes of authenticity, tribal identity, and personal responsibility, arguing that many of our perceived problems stem from disengagement from a visceral, embodied life. Rather than outsourcing health and identity to systems, the piece calls for ruthless self-honesty, conscious lifestyle choices, and reclaiming individual sovereignty. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

7 min
Jan 30

Energy - Like Attracts Like

The pursuit of excellence means showing up again and again in commitment, in consistency, in nailing the fundamentals, in being there even when you don’t feel like it, in getting really close, in caring deeply, in drifting and falling off the path and then coming back on the path, and reconnecting and caring deeply and showing up throughout it all. And that starts to look a lot like love. Love is the outcome of a process. And that process is defined above. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

1 min
12/11/2025

Essence

Where are you suppressing growth? What life habits/patterns are your chief limiters? How badly do you want to live? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

19 min
09/01/2025

Instantaneous Reality Change

You are seeking something which is here — right here — inside yourself. You are not seeking something which is alien to you, but rather your own inmost nature, your essence. Paul Brunton, Discover Yourself Thoughts for the Week: * Visualize and imagine what you desire to experience. * Success: You feel good not because the world is right, but your world is right because you feel good. * We must erase first. Then, we write with clear wisdom. (Picture yourself erasing a mental blackboard). * Self-Awareness: We must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. * Identification: We lose our thoughts in these things in an attempt to feel secure: * Person / Place / Career / Hobby / Personal Viewpoints * We want to cling to something that seems permanent. * Identification with excitement is always followed by an unhappy reaction. * It is strange how human beings seldom inspect the ideas which produce the kind of life they have. * The products of our processes. * You are not your collected self-descriptions… when a memorized image of yourself does not interfere with right now, right now is peace and liberty. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

5 min
08/24/2025

Second Summits

I’ve found this to be one of, if not the, key elements of longevity. Life is full of transitions. Beginning, progressing, achieving, becoming, and then ending. This episode dives into what that may look like, as well as how it can be planned for and navigated. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

15 min
05/21/2025

Attention: Addressing Weaknesses and Inconsistencies

Listen to this while moving, creating energy, or while focused and alert. Absorption depends on optimal environmental conditions. As a runner, if I’m not doing my long runs or lacking motivation, I need to sign up for races or find a training group that fills that need. If I’m not doing my hill work or speed training, I need to hire a coach, sign up for shorter races, or find a group that is doing the type of training I am avoiding. You are closer to success than it often seems. Spend time in reflection and journal what comes to mind. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

14 min
03/24/2025

Potential

Becoming the best version of you is what the world desires. It is what your family desires, it is what the group/work/social environments desire, even though they may not consciously know it. Thus, it is your (my) responsibility to define who that person is, what they are capable of, and start living life that way… NOW. Change is always now. There is no ideal time to be the best. Attitude is your friend. Inaction is your foe. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

20 min
02/12/2025

Freshness

The attitude of the beginner is one of freshness, wonder, hope, and possibility. Dreams die when our spirit hardens. Remain interested in all things and see how your experience changes. Create time and space for the experience to flourish. Set personal boundaries. Harness the power of the destination, or deadline, to achieve results. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abovetheplain.substack.com/subscribe

8 min

Purpose & Power: Living Your Fitness Journey With Intention Thoughts on Lifestyle: Movement, Nutrition, Longevity, and Performance. — Get Fit. Be Healthy. Stay Confident. — jakelawrence.net abovetheplain.com info@jakelawrence.net 505.715.9316 IG: @xclusivefitness abovetheplain.substack.com

Creator

Living Your Fitness Journey With Intention
Years Active

2018 - 2026
Episodes

115
Rating

Clean
Copyright

© Jake
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