“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
- Muhammad Ali
I don't think I'm ready yet to get into the complete accountability details of how I'm doing. What I think I will say though, is I'm doing okay, and I wish I was doing better.
I'm having breakthroughs and set backs. I'd say I'm doing less wasting time, but I have yet to really take complete control of it.
I'm not cycling through web pages, or watching mindless drivel on TV as much as I normally do. As a result I have definitely got more done on a day to day basis. But I'm also still not jumping out of bed refreshed in the morning, ready to seize the day. And I haven't completely eliminated waste from my life. But then again it's a process and sometimes you have to recognize progress and be patient with yourself.
Breaking yourself from habit is hard. As anyone that has ever quit smoking, tried to start working out or went on a diet can attest to. Part of the point of this blog was to break my bad habits in a public fashion, because I knew even if I only had a couple occasional readers, that was at least someone else that would know I failed.
Sometimes it's easy to let yourself down, it's a lot harder to do it to other people. But that's when I realized that this is another area where I want to make a change. Just because it's easy to let yourself off the hook, doesn't mean I want to accept that. And even though I can use peer pressure and social stigma to push myself, doesn't mean it's going to work any better in the long run.
At the end of the day you still have to be able to look yourself in the mirror. I want to be able to say good job and mean it. Even though I can use this as an aid or a push at times, I want to be able to do this for me, because that's the only way I'll stick to it.
Also for anyone that likes sports I revived my other blog The Legend and The Law.
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