- 15 Dec, 2025 *
Last modified 3 months ago.
Yesterday, I was at a big franchise bookstore browsing the aisles. (It was raining after all).
Of course, I swung by the fitness and nutrition areas.
Anyway, I took a snapshot of the neatly-arranged nutrition books. Mind you, that’s not every diet book available to humankind, either!
After reading plenty of books myself and being a fitness enthusiast for over two decades, I wondered how there could be so many takes on nutrition, from so many authors, with 101 themes.
My take is that if someone buys a fitness book, they might not even get through reading it once.
But the real value and power of any book (IMHO), comes from reading it again and again… and again.
**Yes, I’m not the first to say that, but it’s necessary…
- 15 Dec, 2025 *
Last modified 3 months ago.
Yesterday, I was at a big franchise bookstore browsing the aisles. (It was raining after all).
Of course, I swung by the fitness and nutrition areas.
Anyway, I took a snapshot of the neatly-arranged nutrition books. Mind you, that’s not every diet book available to humankind, either!
After reading plenty of books myself and being a fitness enthusiast for over two decades, I wondered how there could be so many takes on nutrition, from so many authors, with 101 themes.
My take is that if someone buys a fitness book, they might not even get through reading it once.
But the real value and power of any book (IMHO), comes from reading it again and again… and again.
Yes, I’m not the first to say that, but it’s necessary to reiterate it.
I love it that I’m at the point that I am re-rereading the health & fitness books that have helped me. And as I review them, I give them even more of a chance to impact my life.
And they do!
Every time I go back and review, I see that I missed something that I need to emphasize more. Or, I see that I’ve become proficient in some areas, which now allows me to start dialing in the other skills and details in the book.
Sometimes I’ve stepped away for months in frustration from what I was learning. After, when I came back to it, I could see that I failed to apply or understand a critical principle that would have made all the difference–and it did.
Deep down, you know this. It’s possible that you know (or sense) a lot of what I write about on this blog. But here’s the thing…
Did you get caught up knowing something, without doing and applying it… again?
So, if you already have a great resource, or need to pick one up, treat it like you paid $1000 for it.
Strong odds are that if you paid that much for it, you’d read it, apply what you learned, and keep at it.
Doing otherwise is just filling your mind with more good ideas. And that won’t change a thing for the better.
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