We live in a world that we want to be as comfortable as we can And we wonder why we have no growth. We We wonder why when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult. We wonder why we cower and we runaway I mean, our whole life is set up that way. Our Whole Life is Set Up In The Path Of Least Resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort so the whole time we're living in our lives in a very comfortable area, there's no growth in that so for me, I realise that the reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable.
What was very uncomfortable was running. What Was Very Uncomfortable Was Being On a Diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face. It also realised when I was really big. I had no growth. Why?Because I was living comfortable, So I realised for me to find growth. I had to face all these different things.That made me very very uncomfortable. One thing I faced was running. I Absolutely hated running but I knew for me to grow, I wanted, I had to do this thing every single day.
I wanted to start callousing in my mind. I wouldn't start becoming a better person and how you become a better person, how you gain mental toughness. how you become the person you want to be. Is Constantly Facing The Things That You Don't Want To Face. If you constantly run away from things that you don't want to face, how is there growth? How is their mental toughness? I can give you class all day long about self-talk, visualisation, Eat an elephant one bite a time but if you're never putting yourself in a situation to actually practice these things.
You're Never Going to Grow, I Can't Put You Out There In a We're All Going Through a Battle In Our Mind. A Warrior Is Not a Person That Carries a Gun. The Biggest War You're Ever Going Through Is Right Between Your Own Ears. It's In Your Mind We're All Going Through a War In Our Mind And We Have To Callous Our Mind To Fight That War And To Win That War. When I First Got Into Endurance Events, I Loved The BreakDown Phase Because The Suffering Made Me Feel Alive and Reminded Me That I'd Gone All Out.
This Time, I Didn't Relish It In The Same Way But I Knew That BreakDown Was a Byproduct Of an All Out Effort And That If I Explored The Crevices of my mind, I would find valuable lessons, which tend to spill out with any unravelling. MOST People Prefer To Avoid BreakDowns Like This Because The Suffering Can Be So Overwhelming. It just might mark you forever. I embrace break down and welcome the scarring, there is a hell of a lot of information and scar tissue. Scars Are Proof That The Past Is Real.
Physical Scars Never Go Away And When You Look At Them, They Can Bring You Right Back To a Specific Place In Time. But The Scar Tissue That Builds Up Around That Old Injury Is Weak. Professional fighters who have been hit in the face thousands of times bleed faster than those who have never been punched. ONCE You've Been Cut Deep, You Are Forever Vulnerable To Bleeding. The Same Is True For The Mental And Emotional Scars That We All Carry With Us.
The scars we cannot see. They might be invisible, but they affect us much more severely than physical scars. Mental And Emotional Scars Are Our Weak Spots And They Can Open Up Just As Easily As Physical Scars Unless We Do The Work To Strengthen Them. If you haven't dealt with your scars, they can alter your life's path, you will be prone to failure during difficult, physical and emotional situations. Whether That's During An Athletic Event, At Work Or In Your Home Life And Eventually You Will Land Back In Front Of Your Mirror That Never Lies.
Breakdown is its own kind of mirror. Whatever you're made of is laid out in front of you clear and plain. Your history and mindset Become a weathered old map ridged with your scars and if you read them like an archaeologist on a dig, you might uncover the code You need to rise again and become better and stronger. Because there is no transformation without breakdown and there is always another evolution. Another skin to shed. A Better Or Deeper Version Of Ourselves Waiting To Be Revealed.
Every morning I wake up if not just about working out but for me working out has been a very big part of my mental growth. So for me, if I am not challenging myself every day, and i swear to god, people will not believe it. I was over Almost 300 pounds twice in my life. A person that does that twice in his life does not enjoy cardiovascular activity. So People Can Put Anything They Want To In Their Head. I Did Realize One Thing, The Things I Don't Enjoy That I Still Do That's Where Growth Is At And That's For Me, The Only Place Growth Is At is in that very uncomfortable.
You know in that uncomfortable zone. So for instance, today I woke up and I just got to London, And I don't know where to run here. It's very difficult to run on this place so someone's said, hey, you can run around out here. Like Around This One Mile Block And I'm Like You Know What? I'm not doing that, so i went down to the gym and there's this like crazy elliptical trainer, but it's not a normal, elliptical trainer. It's one that you like almost self power, so I got on that thing and I realized man sucks And that's like 2 minutes like I want to do this. So right then I realized, It looks like we're going to be here for a while.
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