“Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge
What? Not a single pound? Are you kidding me? Do I look different? How do my muscles look? Any growth? What the heck? Why am doing this again?
Yep, another one of those convos. Frustrated, ready to throw in the towel. No results yet, not a single noticeable difference. Deep into week one of my resolutions to eat right and exercise. Making full use of that new gym membership. I should get bonus points for the extra mile I have to walk to the front door. You know, because there’s no place to park in the actual parking lot. But I know that won’t last. As February approaches the spots will begin to open up. Once April hits, this will be a ghost town. No more lines at the weight machines. I will even be able to use the strategically placed dumbbells; right in front on the mirror wall where EVERYONE stands. With or without dumbbells in hand, pumping and grunting to a new improved body. So they can “watch their form”, vanity at its finest.
Oops, did I say that out loud? Maybe I should resolve to judge less. Oh, but that’s a heavy cross to lift. To be the burden of example as I stay the course. To be the one that doesn’t judge. To be the one that does better. Better at this and better at that. Or whatever it was that I proclaimed on 12/31.
Yes, it’s hard to stay the course and do something different. That is why the gyms are so busy when the year begins but the crowds slowly die off as each month goes by.
It’s not that we do not want to do better. It’s not that we don’t want to be better. No, it’s not that we don’t want to change. The simple fact is that it is hard to change. Change is scary. Change is new. Change is different. Change is unfamiliar. And most of all, change is work. And, the work is not always easy. It’s truly is the heavy lifting.
But, with heavy lifting comes big rewards. The good news is, it gets easier. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Just like lifting weights, the more often you lift the more you are able to lift.
So why do we give up so easily? Why does the gym become a ghost town by April? We live in a world of instant gratification. On demand this and on demand that. Just about anything you desire is readily available at the touch of a button, the swipe of the screen, or even a voice command. A movie, a song, ride, a meal, you name it; we don’t have to do much these days.
Unless we decide we want something better. If choose we want something with purpose and meaning. And, we are willing to work for it. So if we want to fulfill our new order we must do the heavy lifting. The rewards will come. Practice makes perfect, right? Sixty-six days worth to be exact. Okay, maybe not exact, but studies show it takes about sixty-six days for a habit to form. So, there you go, just sixty-six days of heavy lifting.
I guess that explains the April ghost town theory. The last six days are a killer, but hey, after that it’s just part of your everyday life. The heavy lifting doesn’t seem so hard anymore.
Once the habit is formed, real change takes place.
Then, domination!
Come back next for the next part and dominate your new order.
Talk Soon,
Kevin W @LEAP272
Owner-Operator
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