Cummings hopes the e book will influence extra than simply the CrossFit neighborhood.
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Patrick Cummings, the co-host and producer of the Chasing Excellence and Consistency Venture podcasts, has been an enormous presence within the CrossFit house for years.
Along with his new e book, The ABCs of Being Blissful & Wholesome, his influence has broadened to incorporate a youthful viewers.
The Particulars
The e book takes the reader via the alphabet, with each letter representing a particular phrase defined with a brief poem and vibrant illustrations. It isn’t particular to health however focuses extra on wholesome growth and customary themes of development and maturity.
The e book begins with the letter A, which stands for “angle.” Right here’s how Cummings tackles this theme within the e book:
“A is for Perspective, that factor that you simply convey
Into each room, day by day and all the pieces.
It might really feel like a backpack full of massive rocks
Or tiny rockets glued to your favourite socks.
What most by no means be taught is that you simply get to choose
Whether or not your angle will provide help to soar or sink.”
Different themes embody “dedication,” “imperfection,” “motion,” and “reflection,” giving youngsters new concepts and conditions to ponder.
Cummings addresses ideas like “whining,” “gossip,” and “judgment,” acknowledging that even at a younger age, youngsters start to expertise difficult and hurtful interactions.
With its mini-lessons, the e book encourages younger readers to be true to themselves and lead with kindness and bravado.
The Inspiration
Cummings informed us he didn’t got down to write a e book for youngsters, however the thought happened organically as a father of two boys — Emerson, 7, and Miles, 4 — who frequently discusses ideas of “excellence” on his podcasts.
- “I requested myself, ‘What would it not appear like to translate among the concepts Ben [Bergeron] and I discuss on Chasing Excellence for youths,’” Cummings informed Morning Chalk Up.
He used his sons as his prime motivators and inspiration to finish the mission.
- “Considered one of my main missions in life is to impart no matter knowledge and classes I’ve realized over the 40-plus years I’ve been right here to my boys. I need them to know at 20 what I didn’t determine till 40,” Cummings mentioned.
He sees that as his foremost job as a father with little time to waste.
Whereas he sees this as his mission as a father and as a frontrunner within the health house, he acknowledges that there are solely two methods he’ll succeed.
- “First, I want to point out them what it appears to be like wish to orient your life round well being and happiness,” he mentioned. “I want them to see me residing in alignment with these concepts.”
- “Second, I want to speak to them concerning the whats, the hows, and the whys,” he continued. “I want them to know that well being and happiness don’t occur accidentally or luck and that they aren’t reserved for the particular few.”
Cummings hopes that this e book will assist put together youngsters for “a lifetime of happiness, well being, success, problem, bravery, and curiosity. These are the issues all of us hope to instill in our youngsters earlier than they depart residence.”
Apart from his own residence, Cummings hopes that these classes stretch far and extensive all through our neighborhood.
- “My hope for impacting our neighborhood — CrossFitters and others who care about these concepts and ideas — is to offer mother and father who’re already practising these ideas in their very own lives with a further useful resource,” he mentioned. “Another little packet of seeds, another alternative to introduce these concepts, just a few extra rays of sunshine, another probability to create a shared language of their houses.”
The e book is presently obtainable on Amazon.