The Monday Newsletter
New Year, New Changes, And A New FITLETE is coming in 2023. FITLETE will simplify for the better.
“Relentlessness wins because, in the aggregate, unseen details become visible.” ― Paul Graham
Personal Update
This year for me will be a significant focus on simplification in all aspects of my life and work. I tend to enjoy being busy, whether physically working, problem-solving, or doing hobbies. To me, doing things simply is harder because in order for them to be simple it has to create significant impact and value. That’s really what my goals are if I break them down to their raw structures. Spend my time doing things that Create significant impact and are valuable. Trimming the rest of the fluff away from those components will only make the activities I choose to spend time on more significant and more valuable for my own well-being as well as any role I might play in someone else’s well-being. It’s a selfish act, but not in a negative way.
Fantastic Podcast(s) I listened to last week
Three podcasts. I knew this man only by hearing someone else talking about him, but I knew one of the companies he had created. Fitness professionals in any specialty and discipline often work in a “start-up” like business no matter how established, franchised, or corporate the environment might seem. Even in these established businesses, we are often fulfilling a lot of roles and are in charge of our own successes and failures. There is a lot we can learn as professionals in an industry that operates like a collective of technology start-ups.
Paul Graham was one of the founders of Y Combinator. It’s not a fitness company or brand, but it is a company that has a profound impact on literally all our lives whether we know it or not. Y Combinator is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Stripe, and Twitch.
Listen to these Episodes and you will understand how much impact is at our collective fingertips.
Founders Podcast #275 Paul Grahams Essays Part 1
Founders Podcast #276 Paul Grahams Essays Part 2
Founders Podcast #277 Paul Grahams Essays Part 3
Education Events This Week
This section is in going in a new direction. I want to be able to keep things brief but informative here. It’s a place where you can see what’s really time sensitive and then go explore FITLETE.COM for yourself to find exactly what you need.
You will still get the total numbers for the week, the total in-person, the total virtual, and the number of organizations.
NEW!! Annual Events in the next 30 days- They happen once a year and if you miss them simply because you didn’t know they existed then it’s much more of an impactful loss. This will be a weekly updated list of events happening. some weeks it will stay the same some might not even show any events.
The format will be as follows: Event Dates | Organization: Event Title- Event Location Here is a real example of an annual event that you will see here:
Jan 13th | Georgia Strength Coaches Association: Annual Clinic- Marietta, Georgia, USA
Career Tools
Other Member News
There will be a lot of changes in the coming weeks. Some are scary and some that seem so simple you will question why they weren’t done sooner.
Find out what I’m working on next. Follow this Trello Board to see what is going on.