Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast and to part two of the best of Power Hour 2021. We're going to take a listen back to some of the previous conversations, the guests sharing their wisdom and insight and motivation. Honestly, as the host of this show, I get to learn so much. I feel so lucky and I absolutely love it.

So thank you so much for listening each week and for supporting this podcast. All right,

let's kick off part two with the one and only Monica Jones.

As someone who works incredibly hard, not just in the boxing ring, but in life, I would really love to talk to you about work ethic and actually, as I said, this applies across,

you know, business, exercise, all these things. And let's be honest, again, and talk about things that are hard I often say

one of my like kind of mantras is you can do hard things and the reason I say that is because instead

of waiting for something to become easy or instead of thinking oh Adrian if I do this how many

times do I have to practice this until it's effortless or until it's easy. And I actually say some

things I think will always be hard. And so instead of waiting for them to become easier,

oh, you're just going to magically, you know, for example, if you're, if you find public speaking

difficult, like, oh, one day you're just not going to anymore. Maybe it's always going to be hard, but you can do hard things anyway. So often when I hear you

talk about, you know, putting the work in and working hard, you're not giving people like, oh,

make it easier by doing this or actually here's a hack or a shortcut. So why is the mindset of

working hard? Why is that so important to you? It's the integrity of the process that creates the

greatest outcome for us. I feel as if, you know, understanding that if I put in the best practice,

then the outcome is going to be beautiful. And I don't need for it to get easier. If it were

easier, then the outcome would fall short of what I truly, truly want.

And, you know, I usually tell people, like, I'm a huge fan of doing, you know, single limb and unilateral work

because we have to make sure that our body is going to be pretty proportionate and pretty equal in

strength on both sides. And there is always going to be something to correct on one side versus

the other. So I'm telling people, you know, do a single leg bicep curl and maybe see them leaning back.

And this is in previous years because I'm mostly coaching groups now.

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