Different Perspective

These are my own thoughts.  I’m not quoting anyone.  Feel free to add some.

Success does not come from -

- The ice cream shop

- The candy isle at walmart

- taking 5 minute breaks between sets

- eating anything you want because you went to the gym for 20 minutes today.

- eating a candy bar because it has almonds in it.

- lifting weak

- Blaming anything other than yourself

- not taking responsibility for your own weightloss.

- waiting til january 1st. to do it. to quit, to change, to slowly cut down, to lift more, to spend more time with family. etc.

- spending quantity time with your couch.

- blogging about what your going to do and not doing it.

- reading all about workouts, weight lifting, weight loss without putting them into action.

- being hopeful (hope simply implies expectations from outward circumstances, and take away from personal responsibility)

- wishful thinking

- Singing karaoke when your drunk :p

- lifting alot of weight with crap form.  if you look like the pendelum of a grandfather clock before your repitition, then you have crap form.

- Knowing your wrong, but arguing anyway.

- Thinking you are better than someone else because you can lift more.

- complaining.

I’ll add more as time goes by.  Thanks for reading.

At my new job my boss calls me into the office and tells me to open the bottom file drawer and pick out 2 shirts.  He asks me "what size do you wear, a 2x probably?"  Ouch.  There is very few things more embarrassing. 

I used to fit a size Large, and so 2x was not something i was ready to hear.

  It really puts things into perspective in regards to how others see me.  Fat.  But that’s ok, I heard what he said, and I let it sting a bit, and then i tucked it away into my motivation box.  (What he said was not rude, or mean, or disrespectful, it simply taught me something.)

I’m looking forward to the day where i say "Boss, I have lost so much weight, i need a size or two smaller!"

Take care everyone.

Ok friends, i’m not sure if anyone else here does this, and if so then great! The more positive influence, the better.  I am going to start implementing little thoughts of positivity into my blogs for everyone to read, meditate on, or whatever it is you do with it.  I hope you enjoy it.  I thoroughy enjoy reading books and meditating on what matters most…a better perspective.

My first post will be a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson.  He said "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." (1.5)

My personal thoughts on the quote - (and i would invite yours as well)

People most often live in either the past, or the future.  They are concerned with what they wished they could change in the past, or live everyday hoping for something better in the future.  They may also live for a certain future event.  "I’ll be happy when I ____."

Their is not personal creative power when living in the past or the future, but only when living in today.  We can never really know what truely lies within us, if we are never paying attention.  Yes the past happened, embrace it for it’s experience.  The future? Well, you are never really guaranteed that part, and we never really know what is to come anyways, so it is fruitless to DWELL on. (planning for the future is different, because we plan in the present.)

Build a better future by enjoying all the great things that happen today.  We miss so much each day that we are not conciously living.  Live in the present, and realize what you have now!  Don’t trip on what you lost back then, and what you MIGHT have years from now.  You have so much to believe in and be greatful for today.  Dig it up, live it, and enjoy each day.

How I tie this to bodybuilding. 

Forget about your past failures, on what you cheated on yesterday or the week before.  There is nothing left in those memories.  Don’t predict perfection for your future workouts and nutrition goals.  We’re not perfect obviously.  Instead, appreciate your success and experience in today and today only.  Make each days workout a huge success, and truely appreciate your dedication in that day alone. If that day was a defeat, acknowledge your defeat in that one day, grab the experience and trash the memory.  Overdo your compliments to yourself each day.  Don’t wait for someone else to congratulate you on a great day of training and eating healthy.

Again, these are my personal thoughts on the subject.  I can’t say that I’m right in my opinions, but it is alot of fun to ponder these thoughts.  Take care.

I leave with this small thought. - If a friend, talked to, treated, insulted, belittled you like you do to yourself, would you still be friends with that person?

Holy wow! Some of the portions you good people take are small! I have read some of the nutrition parts of your bodyspace, and of the transformation folks and i cannot believe how small of portions you eat.  I believe that is my biggest struggle.  I am getting much better at eating healthy, but the portion aspect of it is a struggle.  Any suggestions on how some of you made that change?? Thanks.

So my girlfriend decides to join me lifting weights.  I am shcocked! She only likes to do cardio.  I have been so proud of her.  Her bodyspace is jrbk_angel i believe. Send her a message of encrouagement if you get a chance!  Anyways, she hangs in there with me, she is patient learning how to lift weights and she does an excellent job.  There is nothing more attractive then your partner trying to better themselves, and be healthy! Jess, if you read this…I am very proud of you, and i enjoy exercising with you.  It means alot to me.