When I was younger, I used to watch the G.I. Joe cartoons in the afternoons after elementary school.
If you watched them, you may remember that after each episode, they did Public Service Announcements that ended with the line,
Now you know… And knowing is half the battle!
If you don’t know what I am talking about, check the video below, and you will get the idea…
It turns out that G.I. Joe is right.
Knowing is half the battle… However, it is only half the battle.
I relate a lot of things I see, read, and recall back to the struggles I had and the decisions I made after I gained (and lost) all that weight after college.
I spend some time (sometimes too much time) on Twitter (follow me!). Tonight, one of the folks I follow, Jesse Lear (his blog: millionairelifehack.com – a very interesting read) posted the following
Resist the temptation to say, “Oh, I already know that”. Knowing is worthless. How have you applied it to your life?
Which of course made me think about G.I. Joe. And my own battles.
You may or may not know that I was an athlete in college. As such, I learned quite a bit about nutrition and exercise.
However, that knowledge didn’t keep me from putting on almost 100 pounds in the years after I graduated. It wasn’t until I applied that knowledge that I was able to get rid of most of it again.
I have been (and continue to) share the things that I have learned over at Build-Muscle-and-Burn-Fat.com. But all I can do is share the knowledge. And maybe you know some m9st of it, maybe you don’t. In either case, I cannot apply it for you.
Like you probably have done a few times, I know that many times I have read something and my initial reaction was exactly as Jesse says, “I know that.”
However, I will make a new focus to move a little farther into the though process, and ask instead, “How am I applying it to my current situation…”
Because “Knowing is half the battle…”
But only half.
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