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27/11/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 27th November

27/11/2025

I got help in not breaking the mirror

I mentioned in yesterday's mirror about how I'd taken some extra precautions to not break the replacement mirror I was fitting again.

In the end though, some of those things weren't actually needed.

Whilst borrowing the sucker things from a neighbouring business, I asked the guys there if they had any thoughts on the safest way to fit the mirror.

I asked them for their help basically.

Any suggestions they would have given would have been very beneficial as, in that business, they handle large panes of glass on a regular basis

But, even better, they offered to come round and have a look.

And they pointed out two things that I had missed.

The wall around the bottom of the mirror wasn't completely flat, which meant that the track wasn't completely straight.

Thus increasing the force on a mirror when inserted.

They very kindly returned to their business and came back with a box full of plastic 'spacers', some of which they then inserted behind the track to make it flat.

And they also noticed that, whilst the people that fitted that mirror originally had used a normal 'one sided' track at the bottom, they'd use a double sided one that would normally go between two mirrors at the top.

The mirrors were placed on these walls when we knocked down the internal wall drawing lockdown and the builders just Frankensteined the bits of track that were usable

This meant that the top track could easily be removed and then placed on the mirror when in place and reattached

Which would mean that mirror only had to be gently lowered into the bottom track and slid a centimetre into place rather than the whole width of the mirror.

And I'd be doing well to break it doing that.

The extra help from professionals making this job even easier than I thought it could be

As it often can.

It's easy to get the temptation to think that we can do everything ourselves.

I'm just as guilty of it as most.

Because I grew up on a farm and got a degree in engineering, in my head, I can do all this stuff by myself fine.

But that was a quarter of a century ago.

It would be foolish of me to think that I couldn't do a considerably better job with professional help.

And that's what a lot of people find when they join us.

After years and years of doing it by themselves and doing OK(ish), they get the support of someone who helps people do this for a living,...........

And they do much better

Much more easily

Countless people have told me that they've realised that saving that pound or so a day on a cheaper option where they just rented access to exercise equipment was the worst 'false economy' that they ever made.

They were essentially paying themselves a pound or so a day, to be fatter and lower in energy than they had to be.

DIY has it's place.

Professional help pretty much always gets better results.

And maybe sometimes we can question where those savings in DIY are actually worth it (if they're not and you're ready to invest a pound or so more in actually getting those lasting changes, then you'll find a risk free trial of that if you comment below or send me a DM to find out more)

Much love,

Jon 'When I was younger, so much younger than today' Hall

Yesterday's blog: I didn't break the mirror this time (and why) - www.facebook.com/222067851180423_1500917255375105

26/11/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 26th November

26/11/2025

More phenomenal work from Andrew as he smashes threw his 1,150th Session with us!

26/11/2025

More phenomenal work from Andrew as he smashes threw his 1,150th Session with us!

Get details at www.myrise.co.uk/info to see how you too could make lasting changes to your life and body whilst having fun with like minded people in an intimidation free atmosphere!

Previous success story: Laura Howard - www.facebook.com/MyRISE.co.uk/posts/1494779262655571

26/11/2025

I didn't break the mirror this time (and why)

I mentioned in a blog last week about me getting a couple of replacement mirrors for RISE.

And how I put a crack in one of them whilst fitting it.

Which meant I had to dispose of that mirror and order another replacement.

That replacement arrived yesterday and I went in this morning to fit it.

This time it went in place with no problem.

For a couple of reasons, which I will cover in a couple of blogs.

Firstly, I learnt from my mistakes.

I Googled the possible reasons for this happening and things I could do to minimise the risk.

Cleaning out and straightening the channel, adding lubricant, taping the corners, etc.

Because if I'd just gone back in with the same approach as before............

It might have gone better.

But it also might have not.

Einstein supposedly said that "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result" (there's no evidence that he did say it, but it's a good quote nonetheless).

Yet we're more prone to do that than we realise.

Things don't work out and we try to do them again in exactly the same way.

Telling ourselves "I know what I need to do. I just need to do it".

Repeatedly derailed by what are essentially the same things coming up over and over - work, family, commitments, other people, lack of time, etc.

It's unrealistic to think that things will ever go perfectly.

But we can probably approach them in a way where we've learned from it not going well before.

Set a better plan (comment below or send me a DM to find out more)

To increase the chance of it going better this time.

Much love,

Jon 'Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey' Hall

Yesterday's blog: The flow is drowning you - www.facebook.com/222067851180423_1499866028813561

25/11/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 25th November

25/11/2025

The flow is drowning you

I've mentioned countless times over the years that one of our biggest wins to help us get better results...........

In any area of our life, not just our health and fitness...........

Is better planning.

Deciding in advance when we're going to exercise, what we're going to eat, when we're going to spend time on certain activities, etc.

Putting a plan in place with the same level of integrity and commitment that we might do our work.

And, as I've mentioned countless times as well, the most common reason that people might give for not wanting to plan more is...........

"I just like to go with the flow".

And that's fine.

If the flow is taking you in a direction that you're OK with.

But I'll have you consider that sometimes the flow is drowning you.

And, when that happens, we don't want to "go with it".........

We want to fight against it.

Battle it.

'Swim' hard against it.

I get it.

I really do.

"Going with the flow" is easier in the short term.

That's why we do it.

But if it's essentially drowning us, then maybe that shorter term extra effort for the longer term benefit is a better idea (and the first step to that might be found in here ---> comment below or send me a DM to find out more)

Much love,

Jon 'Even' Hall

Yesterday's blog: "It came out of nowhere" - www.facebook.com/222067851180423_1498959625570868

24/11/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 24th November

24/11/2025

"It came out of nowhere"

Another thing that stuck with me from the "What's Driving Us' course that I did last Tuesday was about a phrase that is often used when people crash.

"It came out of nowhere"

The other car, the thing they hit, etc.

"Where is nowhere?" the course leader said.

"Seriously - where is it? I've never been there. Where is it?"

He was right.

The thing always came out of somewhere.

Somewhere that we could perhaps have had some anticipation around.

Even if we couldn't see that thing, we could've built up a better picture of what was going on so that our speed and space were more appropriate.

Because better anticipation nearly always leads to better results.

In our health and fitness just as much.

I think it's fair to say that the things that derail us have probably derailed us countless times before.

The "plan to eat" better falling apart as soon as we're offered biscuits at work (as we have been probably daily for years).

The workout missed because "work ran over" (as it usually does).

Deciding to "leave it till next week" when something goes a bit wrong in the same way it often does.

Most of the things that we 'hit' probably could've been anticipated better.

We could've made a better plan.

Or have a Plan B in mind to move to when Plan A won't happen.

Evasion techniques rather than doing the equivalent of just driving into the tree.

The things that we "hit".........

What 'derails' us.........

Doesn't' come "out of nowhere".

We can use a bit of anticipation to keep ourselves 'safe',

Much love,

Jon '1 Burstock Street' Hall

P.S. If you're thinking you might "have a look at this in the New Year" then why wait? Really, why? You'll just have more to do and will regret it. Damage limitation and 'knowingly sub-optimal but done' so you enjoy this time of year even more is infinitely preferable ---> comment below or send me a DM to find out more

Yesterday's blog: What do these traffic lights mean? - www.facebook.com/222067851180423_1498132045653626

23/11/2025

What do these traffic lights mean?

Last Tuesday I had to take part in an online "What's Driving Us" course.

I got a letter in the post a few months ago informing me that I had driven through a red light.

I checked the time and I would've been driving that way on the way home from taking Sessions at RISE on a Monday evening.

I appreciated that the light must have been red at the point of passing it but felt very much that I'd just marginally misjudged the timing of the changes - "half a second earlier and it would've still been on Amber".

On the course they asked us all to name the sequence of traffic lights.

I was pretty pleased to be one of only two people on the course to get it right.

I'll give you a moment if you want to see if you get it right.

Start with just Red and what are the next 3 potential light combinations in sequence?

Scroll down for the answer.
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It is, of course;

- Red
- Red and Amber
- Green
- Amber

And repeat.

Now - what do they all mean>

You'll probably answer similar to how we did;

"Stop - Get ready to go - Go - It's about to go red so either start to stop or keep going dependant on where you are"

Turns out we were wrong.

Red means Stop, of course.

Green is ""you may go on if the way is clear"

Amber and Red and Amber both also mean "Stop".

Just that.

I've just checked the gov.uk definitions and that's what it says there too.

So I was just wrong.

Not "misjudged" or "unlucky".

I had chosen to go through lights that meant "Stop".

I was wrong.

And sometimes it's really powerful to realise that we were just wrong.

It's tempting to feel that we "don't like being proven wrong".

But I'll have you consider that we should love it.

Seek it out.

Because, when we are wrong, the alternative to being proven wrong..........

Is to continue to be wrong.

And that's never preferable.

So here's some more things you might be wrong about;

- Eating healthily is expensive

- Eating healthily costs more

- Eating healthily takes more time

- Eating healthily is boring

- Exercise is (always) boring

- You're too busy to exercise

- You need motivation to exercise

- You need more willpower

- You need to "feel ready" before doing something

- Little changes aren't worth making

- Overconsumption equals failure

- That "writing off" a time period makes any sense

Some of these 'can be' the case if we do them a certain way.

But they don't have to be - we can do them a way that 'isn't'.

Some are things that we've heard and thought so many times that we think they just 'are the case'.

But they're actually not.

Knowing that I was wrong about what the Amber light means will help me make better decisions in similar situations in the future.

Knowing that you have been wrong about any or all of the above can help you make decisions that will benefit you.

Much love,

Jon 'Mellor' Hall

P.S. For exercise that isn't boring (and is surprisingly enjoyable) and changes to food and other areas that don't require additional time and money, then comment below or send me a DM to find out more.

Yesterday's blog: Why Amazon Prime has messed with our expectations - www.facebook.com/222067851180423_1497225582410939

22/11/2025

RISE daily Session feedback - 22nd November

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