BY JED WIGHTMAN
K . I . S . A . S .
BY JED WIGHTMAN
Hello everyone and Happy New Year to each of you . I trust that 2024 was a year of growth , progress development and the furthering of your best possible self .
So , is it just me or did 2024 go by faster than any year previous ? It seems that the older I get , the years seem to feel like months used to , 35 years ago . Something that really sticks out to me , over the last 25 years especially , and more prevalent since the unleashing Social Media , circa 2006 “ Facebook ”. Is how extremely complicated people make , on a macro level , their lives , and a micro level , the multitude of things in which make up the portions of our life . Specifically when it comes to our Physique , performance , recovery , and creating a result that for most of you reading this , has much to do with presenting results to judges to be able to place higher than once before … Or high for the first time ever .
K . I . S . A . S . ( pronounced Keesus )
So what do I mean by this acronym in the first place ? It simply means “ keep it simple and succeed ”. A cousin of the acronym K . I . S . S . Some of you in fact already know that one , which came to me when I was a much younger man . As boy , I was fortunate enough to know someone who left me with one of the most powerful pieces of advice I have ever received . He , a man of few words , battle hardened , stoic and concise . Observed me struggling like I ’ d never before . He looked at me , yelled “ Wightman ”, I looked up immediately with a “ yes sir ”, and he responded with 4 short words . I can hear him now , like he