Sooner or later we all find ourselves being devoured by life. Nothing is going well. Divorce, illness of a child or a loved one, death of family members, loss job, repossession of a house or a car, rebellious kids etc. and the list goes on. Many times we feel like there is no place to turn or go for help or relief. I submit that God is the answer but we have to have the right questions to ask him to help with. Rarely, do we sit still long enough to define the problem, understand how that problem is defeating us, and lastly, we do not put together a proactive plan to respond.
That’s life in general and what I wrote stands on it’s own merits. Jumping immediately into the world of bodybuilding you will instantly notice the parallels. We experience anxiety to start training. We suffer personal attacks from those who doubt us that wish us to fail. We plan, we train, we get injured, we recover and start over. In each situation whether it is in life generally or in body building specifically, we have to turn to self confidence, God, develop a plan to go forward and execute that plan.
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE WITH LIFE REALITIES AND OUR NARROWLY FOCUSED REALITIES AND GOALS. SAME PROCESS FOR ALL THINGS
In each situation we can either be crushed by the experience or we can allow our trials to refine us, focus us, and motivate us to keep moving in the right direction. We really don’t have any alternatives besides these two paths.
Bottom Line: You “WILL” be crushed! Life and in particular bodybuilding will “CRUSH” you. That is the point at which we lose our way and succumb to the badness that has befallen us or we figure out a way to make this badness make us better and more determined to win. The formula for refinement and success is always the same. You can choose refinement to win —- but you gotta want it!
Six Pack and Senior 