It has been said before that "You'll go after what you want, everything else is just an excuse". This couldn't be more true. As a coach, a mentor, a friend, an educator, a motivator, a father, a son, a brother, I have seen so many people in my life create excuses and not go after what it is they want. Today, we want to break down the excuses and take a look at what is really going on and why it is we continue to create excuses in our lives to go after what it is we really want.
You see, there are many things we want in our lives and many things we want to go after. I will use today as an example to you of what I ALMOST used as an excuse. You see, I just got home from a Rescue Class this week. In fact, it was an awesome physically demanding and challenging class. We were completing some shoring yesterday (stuff to hold up structural collapses ) and in the VERY last event of the day, I decided I no longer wanted my thumb, so destroyed it with a hammer while I was holding on to a nail. Immediately it swelled up, became purple and is EXTREMELY tender to the touch. Now, if anyone has had this happen, it can be excruciating.. and in fact it IS excruciating. So i almost let this stop me from doing what I love to do... Working out. I had to stop, listen to what I was telling myself, and change the path I was going down to ensure I was on track with what I wanted and stop allowing myself to make excuses that it would hurt. There was one point in the workout in which I hit the tip of my thumb. Yes, it hurt, but my will to endure the workout was greater than the will to stop.
What's the point of all of this? The point is, for what we really want in life, our fitness, our health, that dream career, that dream person, the dream car, whatever it is, we will go after it if we REALLY want it, otherwise we will find our own way out of it. Let me use another example of this with the gym, in particular, CrossFit.
Most of the CrossFit Affiliates post their workouts the day before or the day of the actual workout. Here's the great opportunity for you.. you can "Cherry pick" the workouts you want to do right? But is that staying true to your ultimate goal of fitness, or is that you "picking" what you are good at and focussing on that? If you TRULY wanted to become over-all better at fitness, then wouldn't you come in as many times as it takes to get there? Wouldn't you pick the weaknesses as much as the strengths to work on? If you truly wanted to improve over-all, wouldn't you not make the excuse of "eh... well, it looks like a tough workout today" and come in any way? What is it that you are afraid of?
If you look to others for motivation and inspiration and they are achieving what you want to achieve, follow what they are doing, or at least ask them how they get through without listening to their inner excuse. We all have it, that inner excuse. It's just a matter of over-coming it. It's the same with nutrition, with all other areas of life. We all have the same 24 hours in a day, it;s how you lay it out and what you CHOOSE to do with it that will determine the outcome of what you want to do. How good are you at making excuses and listening to them? What is it that YOU want and how are YOU going to overcome those excuses? Later, I will post on getting out of the comfort zone again and how to stop listening to those inner excuses. Remember....
You'll go after what you want, Everything else is just an excuse!! (thanks Koshi for the quote)
Jason had a pretty good fall during the West Sac Standoff, but got up and kept going.. after only CrossFitting for 3 weeks!!!! What an animal! Thanks for your inspiration!
You see, there are many things we want in our lives and many things we want to go after. I will use today as an example to you of what I ALMOST used as an excuse. You see, I just got home from a Rescue Class this week. In fact, it was an awesome physically demanding and challenging class. We were completing some shoring yesterday (stuff to hold up structural collapses ) and in the VERY last event of the day, I decided I no longer wanted my thumb, so destroyed it with a hammer while I was holding on to a nail. Immediately it swelled up, became purple and is EXTREMELY tender to the touch. Now, if anyone has had this happen, it can be excruciating.. and in fact it IS excruciating. So i almost let this stop me from doing what I love to do... Working out. I had to stop, listen to what I was telling myself, and change the path I was going down to ensure I was on track with what I wanted and stop allowing myself to make excuses that it would hurt. There was one point in the workout in which I hit the tip of my thumb. Yes, it hurt, but my will to endure the workout was greater than the will to stop.
What's the point of all of this? The point is, for what we really want in life, our fitness, our health, that dream career, that dream person, the dream car, whatever it is, we will go after it if we REALLY want it, otherwise we will find our own way out of it. Let me use another example of this with the gym, in particular, CrossFit.
Most of the CrossFit Affiliates post their workouts the day before or the day of the actual workout. Here's the great opportunity for you.. you can "Cherry pick" the workouts you want to do right? But is that staying true to your ultimate goal of fitness, or is that you "picking" what you are good at and focussing on that? If you TRULY wanted to become over-all better at fitness, then wouldn't you come in as many times as it takes to get there? Wouldn't you pick the weaknesses as much as the strengths to work on? If you truly wanted to improve over-all, wouldn't you not make the excuse of "eh... well, it looks like a tough workout today" and come in any way? What is it that you are afraid of?
If you look to others for motivation and inspiration and they are achieving what you want to achieve, follow what they are doing, or at least ask them how they get through without listening to their inner excuse. We all have it, that inner excuse. It's just a matter of over-coming it. It's the same with nutrition, with all other areas of life. We all have the same 24 hours in a day, it;s how you lay it out and what you CHOOSE to do with it that will determine the outcome of what you want to do. How good are you at making excuses and listening to them? What is it that YOU want and how are YOU going to overcome those excuses? Later, I will post on getting out of the comfort zone again and how to stop listening to those inner excuses. Remember....
You'll go after what you want, Everything else is just an excuse!! (thanks Koshi for the quote)
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