Now this is a scenario worth watching….I or you or some other dude actually sits down with a blank sheet of paper his journal and begins writing. He first attacks his master plan to be absolutely broke and penniless. He imagines as he writes just how crummy life will be and he gets excited. Nothing is worse than being a pauper but to this fella being a victim of abject poverty is his life’s goal. His fantasy world is alive! Next, he carefully constructs a plan to do no physical activity. His goal is double his high school weight within a year. He marks this milestone down on his paper. He transfers his objective to his calendar and prints it in bold print and changes the color to red…so he won’t possibly forget that his fat ass has now doubled in size in the last year. He relishes the thought of being a self-made toad via total neglect. Thirdly, he goes through a few minutes of reflection and decides that he will volunteer for nothing, he will endeavor to lead a pointless life with nothing to move him off the couch. No work today or ever! Lastly, as they say, you cannot fix stupid. Stupid is a byproduct of willfully ejecting your agency and/or your will in order to do that which you know is false or to destroy oneself on purpose. This is the road of self annihilation self inflicted serfdom .
BUT!!!! This self inflicted plan of death cannot and must not occur. Sure we will go through times that are not so good. But, we first must develop a plan to countermand the inertia that so naturally drags us to an early grave with little to show for it. Let’s begin and let’s follow a very simple yet daily and rigid plan: First, We have to get job skills such that we can support ourselves. Maybe our education or our job skills will be good enough to support a family, buy a home, raise some kids, someday send them to college. I submit that if we do this one thing we will not be fat, we will not be lazy, and certainly we will not be stupid.
In bodybuilding as in life, if you don’t put out the effort then all that we do not want for ourselves will kill us. We have to learn at the feet of other bodybuilders who can share and teach us how to do it right. We have to never let a day go by that is aimed at our body weight, it’s appearance. We are not stupid if we do what is demanded of us. There are no shortcuts unless we follow the road of total intellectual, physical, and spiritual neglect.
Bottom Line: If you want nothing, aim for nothing and you’ll hit it everytime. If you want to be better make a plan. Fix your goal in your mind. Start! Never look back. Ignore anybody who tells you to stop or makes fun of you for trying. Small mindedness never wins anything!
Six Pack and Senior 