Favorite Quotes from Coach Sonnon?

[Connie Brown]

Thought it would be fun to ask you all for your favorite quotes from Coach Sonnon and our CST Head Coaches too.

This is for a future product, and Coach Sonnon asked me to collect the sayings which you have found motivational/impacting to you, so that others may benefit? Thanks!

Some of my favorites:

It's an endless Journey, so don't rush to an imaginary destination.

The largest allocation of your brain is in your hands, e-x-e-r-c-i-s-e them!

Work for your health, or it will work against you.

It's not what you fight with, but what you fight for which makes a warrior."

We're all alone in this... together."

You don't need to do everything, just the next thing.

Carry yourself on your bones, not on your muscles.

"You're as old as your joint strength!"(this is from Warrior Wellness. It makes me say, Okay! Okay!)
And just today:

"Stop looking for the 'stock' answer from XYZ guru. Do what you love, what challenges you to extreme, do it consistently with proper rest and recovery, do it coordinated with proper nutrition and do it with proper form."

[MalB]

So many things, so little ability to type! :lol:
For me:

CST Intuitive Training helps you turn your focus and concentration where you need it... on the subjective experience of exercise, with a granularity of vision needed to gain the 3 C's - confidence, competence and coordination.

Of course that's just a start!

[somlor]

Great idea Connie!



Lead from in front by training until you're not impatient. Impatience never has stamina and only leads to 'binge and purge' efforts. And as we know in training, only the slow and steady path endures. Keep doing the great work you're doing. And never believe that you're "small scale." If you're helping one person (including yourself), it IS large scale!




The most effective tool for developing mental stamina is to find that which you need but you find boring and do it anyway. There's no shortcut.




There is NO ideal system. There is only the best approach for you.




If your values are under attack, realize firstly that only a person who believes that their values (and their hierarchy) 'should' be the values (and hierarchy) of everyone, would attack the values (or their hierarchical arrangement) of another individual.

Secondly, realize that this is not a true threat, because no one can assail your values (or their arrangement), because the one thing in life you can't do is change a person's mind (only the individual chooses so.)

Lastly, realize that if you feel the need to defend your values, then that is your issue (and not the would-be attacker's); and if you act upon that insecurity, you've entered into the soap-opera of industry drama.




All of the empirical evidence, throughout history, points to the fact that if you follow your intuition, espouse an approach which enhances your natural predisposition, and remain both disciplined and flexible, you will achieve more, go farther, delve deeper than ANY "system" promoted by any person, group or organization.

[Scott Sonnon]

I really appreciate this, people, so thanks. We're using it for a new product and it's time-sensitive, so please don't hesitate to post. We need 30 quotes.

[mushtaq]

Here is one of my all time favorites


We are each on our own Path. Teachers are not only important. They’re critical. But we must always remember that our Path is not their Path. Our way is not their way. We must with each new person help others realize that they should not do as their teachers did, but seek what they sought.

[Dan Chomycia]

People love to have a “Them” to fight… some strawman bad-guy to despise. They love the drama which it unfolds. This is how politics form – institutionalized drama. If people would just communicate on an individual person-to-person basis, this would never develop.

Be a beginner forever. Make your life a daring adventure. When you don’t get up from a spill it’s time to throw dirt on you. Live deliberately. Bliss out. Play hard. Seize the moment for one of these times it will be your last.

Never tarry. Never abide in a past decision. Never allow failure to fog your commitment. The only true failure is in believing that you have failed. If you didn’t achieve what you had expected, it wasn’t a failure of achievement, but rather misguided expectation. Discard expectations and drive forward with vim and vigor.

Keep compassion close to your heart because they are not evil people, just misguided by the god of mediocrity – Average Joe.

That will do for starters!

Talk to you soon!

[Connie Brown]

The "faith" quotes inspire me.


The Knuckledragger realizes that there are three key ingredients to Incremental Progression: Daily Deepening of Personal Practice, Vigilant Application of Innovation and Patient Faith that No Energy is Wasted.


Faith Matters.


Expect to go all the way alone, but hold faith that your strong will and guidance will create positive impact on your friends and family; maybe not in the way you expect or hope, but somehow in some fashion it will.


Breaking gravity frees the mind and awakens the spirit.
However, attempting something new or walking into the unknown requires leverage.
Leverage can be found only in the Higher Source of Energy.
Faith is the only force that can leverage this Source.

And my favorite on why physical exploration:


She called me a “Knuckledragger” as a derogation, insinuating that my physical exploration into human potential somehow gave me an “unfair” advantage.

She was right.

[Coach Jones]

Blister and callus residue acts as a mild chalk increasing grip adhesion

Poetry...pure poetry.

Brandon Jones
CST Head Coach

[ShaunMccrary]

I just started Judo, so...

" A great throw is less.."

and

" There isn't a bigger fist than the earth".

[laluz]

I found my quote reading one of Coach Scott's posts today on the Radiant CST list:

"CST is just a mirror reminding you how to look at yourself."

Funny how so many of us hone in on many of the same things: weeble, "joint strength, joint strength", the way he says having an injury is unmahnly. I agree with Kathleen, it's the Scott that comes out of the Coach that has the funky memorable quotes!!!

[amilcarkabral]

"Neurological Sophistication"

[plough]

"Crash you say ? Never! I had more Snacky-snacks with which to fill the seats of my digestive roller coaster."

Paul

[Scott Sonnon]

:o :lol:

[Allison]

I like:

"Work for your health or it will work against you."

[Chuck Kechter]

There are almost too many. . . This is one of my favorites:


"Follow your interests with passion, and consume that information like fire on wood. Spend no time on drama. Waste no time on people that devour your energy and anchor you from soaring to your full potential.

Each of us possess a unique genius that we unlock when we never turn back, and move ahead in life with the same excitement and mystery as our first roller coaster ride.

It's easy to learn when you're having too much fun... and it never ends."

[Claire]

I posted this elsewhere (couldn't find this thread LOL) and Connie asked me to post it here...

Hi Connie,
I can't find where the discussion was regarding the Scott quotes you were asking for. I'm sure it was somewhere on the CST forum but I lost it :-)

Whatever, I love the finger circles part of WW beginner where he says
"The largest allocation of your brain is in your hands, e-x-e-r-c-i-s-e them!"
Love that - and it stays with me. I hear him saying it at regular points of the day and whenever I think of it I do finger circles. As a result the pain in my left hand I thought was arthritis and that I was stuck with has practically gone.

Works for me LOL
Claire
:D

[Cilian McHugh]

Your Health is YOUR responsibility.

Sums up the Knuckledragger Ethos for me.