Coach AA's Sunday Newsletter

Hey there! Hope your weekend is going well. I just finished writing my post and it turned out to be a lot longer than I anticipated. And as I review my writing, I realise that to level up, I need to get a lot better at editing. Can I say the same thing in half the words? Quarter? I don’t know if these are the right questions to ask but let’s start there. Anyways, the 3 things for today. * on peer...

Hey hey! Hope you are having a pleasant Sunday so far. Here are the 3 things I have for today. * Don’t think, feeeel. Or how I learned to stop over-thinking. * 3 quotes for this week. * On doing things a second time around and why they don’t work as well. I am going to stick to a bullet point version of these posts. If you like to read, do read the longer form. Or of course, just listen. As always...

Hey there! Apparently, it is November already. Crazy. With recurring lockdowns and vaccine information and well, all sorts of confusing news as always, I constantly remind myself that I should not be setting a timeline for “when things go back to normal”. For one, who knows what normal means anymore. And second, it means we stop waiting for things and we can continue working on our controllable. L...

Hello there! Hope you are having a great weekend. I certainly am. On to the 3 things for today * on a different way to think about cravings * on how strong we need to be (or) when to stop chasing numbers * on where I fell in love with fitness I’d love it if you can share one of these posts with a friend. Please note that you will be sharing the original post from my blog and not the gist you see b...

Hey hey! Let’s get this party started already. Three things for this week are * 3 quotes that I thought you’d like to read and muse about for 5 minutes * the time a dog bit me on the ass and what I learned from it * on losing your drive and motivation to get your workout done. Gonna try a slightly different format for the text version - making it more skim-accessible. If a post strikes your fancy,...

Hey there! I woke up this morning at 5 am without an alarm. Not sure why but hey, it happens. A few years ago, I would’ve forced myself to go back to bed and enjoy my Sunday sleep. Instead, I woke up and read for an hour and then started to write. I love the start to the day! Now, I am off to train after I finish writing this and then will come back and record the audio for it. Normally, I get the...

Good morning! Hope you are having a good weekend so far. If not, there’s still time for you to do something fun - read a book, curl up and watch a movie, order a pizza, grab a beer with a buddy, go on a drive. Even if it is just 30 minutes doing what you want to do, it will brighten up your day. Do it! Right after I publish this, I am going to play around at the gym. An hour of that and I feel ref...

Hey hey! Last week, I tried a new thing on my Instagram handle, which was to post the time I wake up. I was initially sceptical about doing it because a simple rule that works for me is “no phone” for the first hour of waking up or preferably the first 5 hours. But I know that a lot of us struggle with waking up early and I wanted to see if this was something useful to do. And I’ve had a handful o...

Hello there! Hope you are having a good weekend. Mine’s going pretty well. I spoke with a few folks from The Quad community yesterday about how to think about nutrition over the long-term. Most of us make significant progress towards our goals in the short-term but by the end of the year, we are mostly back to where we started. How many of you have made a goal but are not there today - either you...

Hello there! Let’s get to the 3 things we will be talking about today. * on how I find it difficult to get back to my routine , even though I’ve done it for years and years. * on cravings and how to cope with them. * on calorie counting , when to use it and how It’d be lovely if you can share one of these 3 posts (I will link to the original, detailed post and not the snippet) with ONE of your fri...

Hello there! Hope you are having a good weekend. I took a few days off last week - off my phone and laptop and just hung out in nature, went on hikes, drank some wine and chilled with my wife. It was great and while I wish I could say I had 17 different brilliant ideas pop in, it was still a great break. On to the 3 things for today. * on losing work-life balance * if it is NOT about the what, the...

Hello there! Hope you are having a pleasant start to your Sunday. We celebrated 9 years of The Quad yesterday with our community and it was a blast. It was a great opportunity for our team to come together as well - that’s one of the joys of Sports Day. And that was the highlight personally - to glance at what two people scratching their itch can lead to. We are incredibly proud of the team that i...

Hi there! Hope your weekend is going well. I’ve had a bit of an off-week. Maybe it is just that my brain’s stalled a bit and needs a bit of a break. I keep thinking about a few problems and I am not able to get a handle on them. Sometimes, distancing helps. Smart people say the art of thinking by not thinking. I don’t know what it means but it sounds smart. Let’s see if rambling about it helps :)...

Hello! Hope you are having a good weekend. I had a great evening yesterday - we caught up with a few friends and our dogs caught up as well. Which also means my dog is still passed out from her raucous efforts and I get to do this undisturbed. On to the 3 things for today. * on effort vs outcomes * on the time we’ve created * on buying peace of mind Let’s get on with it! on effort vs outcomes We a...

Hello! I used to worry about writing my Sunday newsletter late but once I removed a time constraint i.e. when I should wrap it up, things got amazing. Now, my schedule is * to write my post for the day. I already have the notes compiled for it but I don’t write it until Sunday morning. * once that’s done, write this newsletter down * and then record the audio for it. * after this process is done,...

Hey! Hope you are having a good Sunday morning. I am having a decent weekend so far. I spent a lot of time yesterday reading a few books that I’ve been wanting to read. I broke my rule of not buying books until I finished my pending list. But I kinda always knew I would do that. So, 10 new books added to the pile. But I’ve made some progress in my approach to reading and I am trying to understand...

Hey! How’s the weekend going so far? I had a chance to catch up with some reading yesterday and I am feeling happy about it. While I do read every day, some books are a lot harder to read than some others. Of late, I’ve been trying to learn more about meditation, mindfulness and all that, and I was reading a book that someone I highly respect recommended. Oh boy, I am floundering in trying to unde...

Hello ! How’s the Sunday going so far? My brain juices have been a bit slow this morning - after the longest time, I had rice for lunch and dinner last night. Don’t get me wrong - I loved it, especially since the lunch was at my mom’s - after 6 months! But I get sluggish, always have. Nothing that a good coffee cannot solve, and I have plenty of that. Plus, once I wrap this up, need to get some ac...

Hey hey! A bit late with this week’s edition. I had a late night after ages, and slept in past my usual time. Feels good though. Previously, I would’ve chided myself for doing this but for absolutely no reason. So what? My dog decided she needed 2 walks last night after 10.30 pm as well, primarily because we left her alone to hang out with a couple of friends. Which meant I could walk around a bit...

Hey there! Hope you are having a pleasant weekend. I had a great Saturday - ran a class with Coach KK and learned some interesting things, saw a couple of friends, and had finished the day with an amazing evening with my wife where we just spent 4 hours talking with some wine present. An interesting part of paying more attention to my day and week has been figuring out patterns to make good things...

Hope you are having a pleasant Sunday morning! As I continue tinkering with the right medium to deliver my writing to you in a pain-free manner (and to actually get it into your inbox), I found that Substack has a new podcasting feature in beta. I use them for my main newsletter, and figured that this is a better way to ensure delivery and to allow folks to subscribe and unsubscribe (rather than m...