How many times in our lives have we thought, “I have arrived!” or we say to ourselves, “It doesn’t get any better than this!” or my favorite, “There are no more interesting challenges!” So, we settle in to live our remaining days rolling in the clover of self congratulations. Wow! Probably not too many of us have had this sort of luxury. Most of us when we settle at a particular level, we do so because of feelings of inferiority or helplessness or discouragement. We begin to look and feel defeated and without hope. Thus, we do nothing to improve our lot.
When we are buried self loathing and defeat, we bodybuilders start to train with no enthusiasm. We train mechanically while lacking the extra part of us to do better. We go through the motions and maybe we even start missing workouts. We are stuck because we have decided that we cannot do any better on stage, thus we play “NOT TO LOSE—SO BADLY.” OUCH!
At the other end of the spectrum, maybe we have had a string of successes and we feel that anything we do will bring only more success. We don’t train as hard because we are so self-deluded into thinking that we are so good that we “have arrived.”
Each of these scenarios has to change or we will never improve toward our true potential. ENTER THE DRAGON OF HORRIFYING DISRUPTION AND DEFEAT!” It’s going to happen and there’s nothing we can do about it. The DRAGON will destroy our world of negativism or arrogance in a heartbeat. We have to respond well to this change or we will be stifled and we will step off the track to success.
This DRAGON will take the form of divorce, illness to you or a loved one, or worse, the death of a loved one, kids rebelling and finding their way to drug use, teen pregnancy etc. These DRAGONS can reduce us all to non participants in life or in many of our lives, bodybuilding.
The key thought in all this is, “HOW DO WE RESPOND TO UNANTICIPATED BAD EVENTS (DRAGONS)?” I submit that anything that causes us to lose our focus will kill us “in place.” Anything that drives us out of our place of settling will make us stronger and more determined to never return to the place where all life is gone.
Bottom Line!! A storm is coming, the likes of which we have never seen. That storm will disrupt our place of retreat or comfort. Because of the storm we will become champions and/or captains of our own ship of glory or fate. Look for it and be ready to travel to greater heights. The stage awaits!
Six Pack and Senior 