De-Railed - 5 Critical Lessons

Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership (NelsonFree)
There are 5 critical lessons that Tim Irwin summarizes in DERAILED to make sure we can stay on track and not get derailed.  I think being the first of the New Year is a great time to look at ourselves and make sure we are using these lessons to stay on track with many things in life such as our health and exerciser programs.

1. Character trumps competence
2. Arrogance is the mother of all derailers
3. Lack of self-/other-awareness is a common denominator of all derailments
4. We are always who we are...especially under stress
5. Derailment is not inevitable, but without attention to development, it is probable

We are only as good as our character.  Character is the aggregate of features and traits that forms the individual nature of ourselves.  We may need a repair or change of our inner traits to make sure they are leading us in the path to good health.

The largest failure of character is arrogance.  We need to be continually aware of any sign of this toxic trait in our character.  Continually look at your health and your exercise habits to make sure you are not thinking you have all the answers and have it completely under control.  It is okay and you should use experts to help you with your health and exercise programs.

It is important to continually monitor our habits to maintain self awareness.  You need to have regular medical physicals, dental exams and I think a functional movement screen.  Also do a food diary to monitor what and how much you eat.

We are who we are, if we want the maximum from our external healthy body we need to make sure that our internal mind and spirit are also healthy.  I continually work with patient's that have external physical injuries that are deeply tied to their internal mental and spiritual injuries that have never been rehabilitated.

Derailment of our health may sometimes appear to happen almost instantaneously, but usually is due to a series of choices over time that lead us to derailment.  We need to pay attention to our development by being continually alert and self-aware and make a life long commitment to learn, grow and prepare.  We have to be discipled daily to maintain good health habits to reduce risk of derailment.