{"id":1963,"date":"2014-08-15T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/american-ninja-warrior-thinking-outside\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:01:05","slug":"american-ninja-warrior-thinking-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"American Ninja Warrior — Thinking Outside the Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please don’t judge me….I love the show “American Ninja Warrior”! I watch it while I’m in warrior mode on my treadmill (I tape the show to get each episode). I watch these people pushing their bodies beyond human possibility. They rigorously train for a year to become the “American Ninja Warrior”. In 5 seasons, no one has won, yet the show has proven to be the best reality competition series ever. The competitors have their athletic & mental skills tested beyond limits in the crazy, and seemingly impossible-to-conquer obstacles. Though in 5 seasons, there has been no winner, there will be. I promise you. Olympians, professional athletes, rock climbers, runners and everyday folks — men and women of all ages and backgrounds — train for their one shot to compete, many of which end in mere seconds on the first obstacle. So what’s the appeal?<\/p>\n

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Sure, a $500K reward is a factor, but hearing the stories of the people that overcome adversity for their cause and goals is the most amazing. Whether they’re doing it for an ill friend, a mother with breast cancer or whether it’s their own personal achievement — weight loss, beating drugs or alcohol — and it’s something that we all can identity with.<\/p>\n

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Last week, I saw many veteran competitors try to win over one particular obstacle, the cannonballs — where they had to lunge toward the hanging ball, hold tightly and lunge to the next ball. One by one, the veterans failed and fell into the water. Then a rookie, Kevin Bull, successfully made his way through all the obstacles and then it was his turn to defeat the cannonballs. I watched as he went outside the box, by thinking of another way to get it done. He swung to the last one — and not with his hands, but his feet and conquered that obstacle. He won’t be the last — there will be others that will conquer that obstacle, too.<\/p>\n

Wasn’t that like Roger Bannister, the first to conquer the 4-minute mile, and now high school athletes can run the 4-minute mile. What are you willing to achieve by thinking outside the box? What are you willing to do to accomplish your goals? I don’t know about you…..but watching the relentless determination of these warriors sure makes me want to give my ALL — physically, mentally, and spiritually to use what God has given me….to conquer any obstacle that comes my way…..and even do so, sometimes, by “thinking outside the box”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please don’t judge me….I love the show “American Ninja Warrior”! I watch it while I’m in warrior mode on my treadmill (I tape the show to get each episode). I watch these people pushing their bodies beyond human possibility. They rigorously train for a year to become the “American Ninja Warrior”. In 5 seasons, no…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11627,2439,7963,11628,11629,11630,11631,6248,11632,11633,11634,11635,3223],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-4-minute-mile","tag-adversity","tag-american-ninja-warrior","tag-beating-drugs","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cannonball","tag-kevin-bull","tag-obstacles","tag-outside-the-box","tag-personal-achievement","tag-roger-bannister","tag-thinking-outside-the-box","tag-treadmill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}