Showing posts with label Positive Attitude. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Positive Attitude. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2014

A Vision of Change

Change can be so unclear at times. In the back of my mind I can see what and who it is I want to become. Sometimes that vision is a bit blurred by the lens of whom or what I thought I was or whom or what I think that I am. In the brevity of moments on “good” days that vision crystalline clear. You see, once that image becomes clear my mind’s eye begins to well with tears that distort that image.

Sometimes the tears are of anger from the knowing that I've taken myself further away from that vision, and sometimes, but not often enough, the tears are of the joy that comes from knowing that I am inching slowly toward the becoming.

Sometimes I’m not alone in this vision, there is someone else standing at my side. And sometimes the tears come from knowing that this is not the reality in which I exist.

The thing about sometimes is that it lies somewhere between now and then  - which is not a place anyone should linger if they hope to ever find the clarity of whom and what they are, and whom it is that is actually beside them overcoming their own tears.


A real change doesn't happen sometimes, it happens now, which is a point and time beyond tears where you see and accept yourself becoming who and what it is that you hope to be. 

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Today's Failure Was A Success

I'm midway through this transformation and I promise I'll get you the back story soon. Since my plateau and slip in nutrition I've essentially taken the stance of "this is my new starting point". Having said that, howdy!

My name is Jimmie, or J.W., and I now weigh 400 lbs. How did I get into this condition you might ask? Well in 22 days I'll have been working down from 536 lbs. What's even scarier is that I was over 550 lbs in an unknown zone waiting to die young. Fear not, true believers, I'm here to tell you the tale.

We'll go into more about this later but I want to share my experience today. It's about confronting fear. You see, I'm the fat kid that walked off the football field in 7th grade because I couldn't hack the conditioning. This still bothers me to this day.

Part of my healing process is coming out of my comfort zone. Lately my work outs have become stale; the intensity just isn't where I like it to be because I'm not pushing myself. The force that propelled me to a 140 plus sliding pound loss in under a year has waned as of late. I decided to turn it up with CrossFit.

I must confess I'm a bit scared of CrossFit. Two weeks ago I even had a nightmare about it not working out. My physical condition at present is not going to pull off all the basic moves in the system. There's no way I can do a pull up yet or box jumps. But my honey badger spirit signed on for a 3 week beginner course that started today.

No one likes to do things they aren't good at doing. Humans like to feel comfortable and competent. As for me I hate losing probably more than the next person; so much that I even curse when I lose on lottery tickets! I expect to win in this life. And yes, all the time. This is why I will never truly lose.

Today I finished last in our mini WOD but I finished. I suspect that this might be the case for a while but it's not going to stop me. All I have to do is beat myself. By showing up, doing work I never thought I could do (and still doubt at times) I WILL IMPROVE. This attitude is a crucial part of becoming the man I want and need to be.

Be willing to stop accepting your best excuses. Be willing to let go of whatever is behind whatever is holding you down.
Until next time remember to keep moving, ever forward, one step beyond.
JW