--- title: "Just Show Up" id: "4133" type: "post" slug: "just-showing" published_at: "2014-03-19T14:00:34+00:00" modified_at: "2014-11-18T14:26:28+00:00" url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/just-showing/" markdown_url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/just-showing.md" excerpt: "A project I’ve been following since Tiny Startup Camp is Fizzle.co. They have a podcast I highly recommend and just the other day I saw this good post about “showing up.” It’s made all the difference in my work out..." taxonomy_category: - "Productivity" taxonomy_post_tag: - "You Are Your Own Gym" --- [Skip to the content](#site-content) [John Poelstra](https://johnpoelstra.com) ### Bringing order to chaos and clarity to confusion - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) Toggle search field - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) # [Just Show Up](https://johnpoelstra.com/just-showing/) A project I’ve been following since [Tiny Startup Camp](https://johnpoelstra.com/tsc-jason-glaspey/) is [Fizzle.co](http://fizzle.co/) . They have a [podcast](http://fizzle.co/show) I highly recommend and just the other day I saw this good post about “[showing up](http://fizzle.co/sparkline/just-show-up) .” It’s made all the difference in [my work out program](https://johnpoelstra.com/get-your-own-gym-for-free/) with You Are Your Own Gym. A lot of days I don’t feel like doing the work outs and yet I remind myself, “All I have to do is just show up and do the routine it says to.” I’ve been at it for almost twelve months now (not counting the month or so I took off because of an injury) and the benefits are becoming more and more pronounced–mainly reducing the size of the “banker’s belly” (too many deposits and not enough withdrawls). There is so much to be said for “just showing up” because it is so easy not to. “Everything changes when we stop thinking about how to get ahead or skip steps, and focus instead on building consistent, repetitive creative habits.” There’s also a good quote from Jerry Seinfeld which I heard in a [good interview over on Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin](http://www.wnyc.org/story/jerry-seinfeld/) . Everyone talks about how what a good podcast Here’s the Thing is, and it is. Alec is hilarious and goofs around with the guests and is very curious interviewer. #### John Poelstra John Poelstra coaches directors in finance and software. Trained through the Co-Active Training Institute, he has coached for more than 10 years, with over 520 clients and 3,150 sessions, including people at well-known Fortune 100 companies. In over 30 years of professional experience, he spent 25 in technology and finance: software testing, project management and team leadership at Red Hat and Dell/EMC, and finance as a bank auditor at Wells Fargo and a CPA at Grant Thornton. He hosts The John Poelstra Show podcast and is based in Portland, Oregon. [Author archive](https://johnpoelstra.com/author/john-poelstra/) [Author website](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-john-poelstra-show/id1130635146) March 19, 2014 [Productivity](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/productivity/) [You Are Your Own Gym](https://johnpoelstra.com/tag/you-are-your-own-gym/) [Previous post](https://johnpoelstra.com/openshift-stubbornness/) [Next post](https://johnpoelstra.com/regarding-nothing/) ## 0 Comments ## [Add yours](#respond) ### 2 Pingbacks 1. [YAYOG Builds Muscle and Confidence - John Poelstra](http://johnpoelstra.com/yayog-approach/) 2. 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