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Hold up…

So you’re telling me today is a Monday, which means the beginning of a fresh new week, which also happens to be the start of a fresh new month, AND its kicking off a brand spankin’ new year?!

Mah goodness gracious, what a beautiful and glorious way to start 2024— ON A MONDAY!

And we’ll actually have 53, not 52, but 53 Mondays this year.

Not only does that mean you’ll receive 53 ‘Monday Morning Motivation With Mike’, but you’ll also have 53 opportunities to shout from the rooftops and mountain tops, “TGIM”!

I dunno about you, but this feels like an omen.

And like I explain in my very first newsletter, we want to pay attention to omens.

“Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens”
- Paulo Coehlo

With that said, this new year is and can be whatever you want it to be, you just have to listen when she speaks to you.

If you ask me, us being blessed with another Monday this year (and Mondays, to me represent a new blank canvas for us to create yet again another masterpiece) is the universe telling us to get started.

👏🏼Just👏🏼get👏🏼started.

Whatever your goals are for this year, for your life, you’ve been blessed with 53 “DO-OVERS” in 2024 so get started and don’t look back!

Some of my favorite quotes on the importance of getting started, all equally profound if you ask me:

• 🗣“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you” - Maya Angelou

• 🗣“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” - Lao Tzu

• 🗣“Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got“ - Jim Rohn

• 🗣“You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great” - Zig Zagler

• 🗣“A year from now you will have wished you got started today” - Unknown

To piggyback off that last quote, imagine yourself exactly one year from now.

Picture yourself today, but next year.

I tell my two oldest kiddos, who aspire to be pro athletes, that they should be able to completely whip themselves from a year ago.

From an athletic standpoint, who they are today should be able to completely smash themselves from who they were 365 days ago. And if they feel they can’t, it’s because they did not put in the work. Period.

As you imagine yourself one year from today:

• 🙏Imagine how much stronger you’ll be— mind, body, and soul— due to the daily work you pour into yourself starting today.

• 💪🏽Imagine how much better you’ll look, feel, and perform due to the consistent lifting, cardio’ing, stretching, foam rolling, etc you’ll do starting today.

• 🥑Imagine how much healthier you’ll be due to the much cleaner food you’ll consume more regularly starting today.

• 🤝Imagine how much stronger all your relationships will be after you pour into those closest to you starting today.

The list goes on and on, y’all. Imagine, though!

You, 365 days from now, can and should be a much much better version of yourself today. And by the way, you can still 100% love yo’self and still want to grow. Those two are not mutually exclusive.

Worried about not following through with your goals like years past? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Research suggests that ONLY 9% of Americans complete their resolutions!

That’s just over 90% who quit!

And of those 90% who quit, 80 percent quit within the first 90 days of the year!

Guess what though? I have the solution!

CRUSH 90 CONQUER 365

After learning these numbers back in 2017 I created an initiative to tackle this problem head on.

The way my brain works, if almost everyone quits within the first 90 days, theoretically speaking, if we can get out of those first 90 days having CRUSHED our goals then the chances of us continuing on and actually completing our goals should drastically increase.

With an exception of last year, we’ve done this every year since then at my gym. We CRUSHED the first 90 and wouldn’t you know, those who participated CONQUERED the other 365.

No BS. Those who take part in our CRUSH 90 CONQUER 365 initiative, year in and year out, see much better results throughout the ENTIRE year compared to those who didn’t participate.

We’re doing it again this year at Free Your Fitness(go FOLLOW the page) with a ton of cool giveaways to offer for those of you who CRUSH it. Pay attention to my socials (Instagram and Facebook) for more details to be posted later today and throughout this week.

In case you can’t tell yet, I’m damn excited for today, for this year, and I look forward to helping as many of you as I can.

Happy 2024 y’all, GET STARTED, and lets crush it together!

And please never forget:

No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future. Your peace resides in the present. Another definition of present is a gift because that’s precisely what it is, a gift, a blessing. Stay in the present, no matter how uncomfortable it may be.

Much love, mi gente!

- Mike O’Hara

PS

Learn how to master your Mondays in my second newsletter ever, posted back in September. And then after that, please consider sharing this newsletter with your loved ones so they can benefit from it too!

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