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In order to be able to run fast, jump high, endure a beating, love intensely, we must be willing to suffer the requirements for accomplishment. There are no short cuts in life. Like the Navy Seals say, “When you are surrounded on all sides, we group up and CHARGE!” The best results that yield the best and most enduring lessons are the ones that costs us the most and the ones that are direct and straight to the target. Believe me when I say that this path is painful. However, be on track and focused on the target teaches us the best lessons.
My Father-in-Law, David S. King, Congressman Utah always said that the best lessons we learn in life are usually the ones associated with our worst failures. How many of us have said after a solid butt kicking, “I’ll never do that again!?” I think the answer is a universal, “ALL OF US!” I’m also betting that 99% of us who uttered those words actually ‘never did that again.’ So, supreme effort, coupled with supreme failure begets supreme lessons. As a result, because we handled the worst we are now very much prepared to “Handle the best.”
In bodybuilding we are always about the business of honing our craft. We have accepted the maxim, “There are no short cuts and we are on it. With each workout and the accomplishment of specified goals we learn the best way to handle our training is to show up every day, make personal observations regarding what works and what doesn’t work. There are times when we over train (my personal sin), become distracted, waste time, listen to close friends, relatives, and knuckle heads and thus we suffer. We have got to go where nobody else will go if we want the best for ourselves. The trip to the nether world will only be painful as we learn the tricks of the trade and persist on to the things that will make us great. These things we have to handle are sometimes bigger and more horrible than our minds can imagine. But! like a U.S. Marine friend of mine said, “commitment means biting off more than you can chew—-and chewing it”
This is our journey and it represents our lives. Don’t ever think that anything is free. But, you can think that almost anything is attainable with the right mindset and willingness to get dirty as we work.
In closing! Handle the worst things so you can handle the best things!
Six Pack and Senior 