SPARTAN SERIES #175: “JUST BECAUSE MOST DON’T MAKE IT, DOESN’T MEANS YOU CAN’T!”

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I envy nobody

We all are measuring ourselves against other people and their accomplishments. We are often obsessed with trying to figure out why they make it and we don’t. It could be our best friend. It could be a professional athlete, the classmate that seems to have it all, our colleagues etc. To do this exercise always leaves us exhausted and defeated. The reality is that we have missed the truth. Most people around us never make it to their goals and rarely do they measure up to the standards they set for themselves. Hint! We are looking in all the wrong places and at all the wrong people to motivate us to be our best selves. I say, stay focused only on what you want for yourself and the ones you love. By blocking out the failures of others we are then free to build the personal expectations, goals, your life, your journey with no dead weight associated with guilt, shame, or regrets.

Now that we are free of artificial images of success and we have grasped the truth that we can make it by doing it ourselves. We have stopped the nonsense of “worship of others.” Today, especially in the gym for us muscle heads, move in a new direction that includes only you and your own progress. Dig deep and feel the difference in your training. Notice how easy it is to smile, to laugh, to horse around between maximal efforts. You truly are the “Captain of your own ship” and only you can sail it and only you can “MAKE IT.” I love to live in the moment and know that this moment will carry me to my future. I love pushing to the stage! Win lose or draw it’s all about doing it and “MAKING IT” when so many will not even try or will not make it.

“MAKING IT” is about far more than winning. It’s about finishing what you start and bringing it forward as a resounding victory. I like the description of a successful marriage that seems to fit this illustration, “WHAT STARTED AS A SIMPLE MELODY HAS GROWN TO THE ZENITH OF A ROARING SYMPHONY!” This says it all! We decide what we want and no matter who falls by the wayside as we progress, we push our efforts in the gym and in life to the level of “A ROARING SYMPHONY!”

Many are not going to make it! But, I believe I/we can and we will. There are no positive lessons as you look to your right or to your left. We don’t learn by asking life questions of the fighter who has been knocked out and is lying prostrate on the floor. Look inside and decide what you want and never give up the vision of “MAKING IT!”