Archive for August, 2008
LOOK DOWN TODAY
Each morning I awake at 6am and take Parker, my adopted jack russell chihuahua, on a hike for about an hour. I then head to the gym for a 30min run on the treadmill and swim for 30mins. This has been my ritual for the last 11 months.
My intention was to simply be healthy and more importantly spend some time just caring for myself. I firmly believe that if you don’t care for yourself first, you can not care for anyone else properly.
I find it to be meditative and I gain so much joy from watching Parker explore each morning. It is so rewarding and enlightening to see this little dog take the same hike each morning for 11 months and it’s as if he has never hiked it before. Everything is new and exciting. The gift of his consistent life in the now has had a profound effect in my own life. I can truly say that it was he who has recued me, not the other way around.
This month I decided to switch up my ritual. I thought I’d begin to use free weights to begin shaping my physical form and take a break from swimming. In essence, I want to sculpt my physique.
Needless to say I have been in pain. I mean pain. I say PAIN. But, two things keep me focused on my outcome: 1. A great saying, “Pain will make you bitter or better, it’s upto only you” and 2. the photograph of the body type I aspire to emulate.
The pain is enough to frankly cause me to simply slip back into what makes me comfortable and more importantly, doesn’t cause me pain. I hear the constant chatter in my head driven by my natural instinct of fight or flight. The ego trying to protect me from pain. The pain yelling out to me, “stop!”
But, I remind myself that I will overcome this uncomfortable pain. I am building slowly. And one brick at a time I will build the image I have crystalized in my mind.
There is overwhelming evidence in my life that my dreams and ideas manifest. I simply need to apply the same principles that I have in the past to my new desires.
- Be crystal clear as to what I desire – have VISION & PURPOSE
- Declare my vision in written form and then share with others
- Take small baby steps
- Be flexible/adaptable – modify what is not working
- Reward myself for the small and big improvements
Rewarding yourself is crucial. Sometimes we get so caught up looking up (at where we want to be or what we want to have) that we never look down — and acknowledge how far we have gone or what we already have.
Hobgoblins 2 video Maybe today this will inspire you to look down and reward yourself.
