Stop reading if you’re expecting Don’s diet tips. Have you ever done weight training? If you have, you know there’s a right way and a wrong way. The wrong way is to lift a weight and let gravity take over on the way down. The right way is to “Manage the Weight” making sure that you are in control of the weight every moment of the exercise. It takes concentration and focus to manage the weight.

I lift to combat the effects of being no spring chicken. When I started, my form sucked. Then, I started managing the weight and things changed in both my training and in my head muscle. Really managing the weight has given me a new perspective on my thought process.

I’m one of those folks that has (what I think) is the occasional good idea. That’s the “lifting” part. Then I drop the weight and implementation goes out the window. Thinking (like lifting) requires that you manage the entire exercise. Have a thought? Manage the weight. Don’t let go. Don’t loose focus and let gravity take over. Focus through the entire exercise.

When gravity takes over, my brain jumps to the next stimulus, the next random emotion, the next point of focus. God help me if someone aims a laser pointer at the floor. But then I remind myself to “Manage the Weight” especially if I have a turbulent thought. Instead of jumping out of my flesh suit as soon as I am done with the lifting part, I stay with the thought. Manage the weight and stay focused until the exercise is complete.

Lifting weights and processing thoughts both have two parts. One process can inform the other. And one last thought, don’t lift too heavy a weight or a thought. Either one can make you strain your Klavey.