In the last post, I talked about finding power.
I talked about digging deep for the times that your mind (aka the little devil on your shoulder) talks to you and tells you to sleep in, skip your wod, eat that junk, have that beer, that your not worth it, that you won’t hit your target anyway OR you need to workout 20x a week, you have to eat more, you are getting weak, you can’t skip that session… it truly goes both ways.
Today I said I would share mine.
I want to be healthy and fit to lead my family and my team and my tribe. That’s it.
It’s not unique but it is profound to ME.
I believe I am right where God wants me to be. I have a beautiful family with 4 other people that need their father/husband to be able to have the energy to go hard at work all day and come home and be present with them. To help with homework, to go to practices, and to wrestle around at night. I have a team that needs to see an example of fitness consistency and business consistency that they are proud to work for and know that if they follow down this path they are on, they will also be able to create a life they love. And I have athletes that come into my gym that need to see the possibility of transformation. That living a healthy lifestyle is not just possible, but a joy. They need to see what is possible when they join our community and how much their lives will change, and I am that beacon of hope for them.
It’s not about being the best exerciser. But I want to be.
It’s not about being the strongest. But I want to be.
It’s not about being the best looking. But I want to be.
See all these superficial PRIDE driven reasons don’t hold water when the rubber meets the road because at the end of the day, they are not truly my PURPOSE. They are not MY WHY. My why is to help others know Christ and live a life they love, and FITNESS is my vehicle. It is my gift. And when I get that twisted, fitness becomes my idol and it doesn’t work.
And this has been my struggle. The pride clouds things up. It causes confusion. Why I train drives how I train. I have been in the fitness industry for 10 years but I have been an athlete all my life. From birth I’ve been a competitor. And that competitor mindset is both a blessing and a curse, like most things in life. If I let it run me, then it dominates and things get out of balance. I spend too much time and energy on “winning” vs getting to my goals aka what I truly want.
So here is the deal: fitness can easily become an idol. And as a gym owner, professional fighter, college student, high school athlete, or busy Dad, the way fitness looks in my life can be completely different.
Goal: go to the Crossfit games. Not me.
Goal: deadlift 500. Not me.
Goal: run a marathon. Not me.
Goal: win the cold steel classic. Not me.
Goal: lead Crossfit resurgence into 2018 to have our best year yet and be at all my daughters gymnastics meets and sons lacrosse games. More like me
Goal: win at business, home, and achieve 5/7 Days fitness while eating diet that keeps me energized and healthy. Yes please.
And the complexity comes in the stories we tell ourself about what we should be doing or what our expectations are for ourself because those stories then create a frame for how we view success.
And the messed up thing is that we could be listening to that little voice in our head telling us to eat that or not eat this, or just skip that workout you don’t need it or you need to go workout because you are a pussy if you don’t…. and that little voice is not helping us move toward what we want in life currently. and the confusion created by that could prevent us from doing the required work to get to where we actually want to go right now.
Getting CLARITY is the key!
This is why the truth is so profound and so simple yet it wasn’t available to be because I was blinded.
So with clarity we can create a target. And with a target we can create a plan. And with plan we can take simple daily action steps toward that plan until we hit it. Simple. Yes. But not easy. The required work is never easy.
But with clarity we get a map. And with our purpose we get the guts to do the work.
And with a community we realize we are not alone and we have a tribe of people to lift us up along the journey when we feel like we can’t.
This my friends is the game.
It has no finish line. So find some people you like and get in the game with them.
