For the martial artist, the fitness enthusiast, and the good/better/best lifestyle and health-seeker…
I originally posted this one back in February 2016 on my writer’s blog. That was just about a year before my massive leap of faith. Since then, this entry has been on my mind, especially over the past few weeks. I am battling and pushing to make my dreams reality, and that means letting go of who I was and becoming who I need and want to be. The transformation is not easy–it’s @#%(&#^ hard; the old doesn’t readily give way to the new and the better. It’s the fight, this transformation, and it’s a must-do.
If you are involved in a similar battle, you might resonate with the below. If so, I hope something in it helps you win the fight, and the war.
I’m gonna tell ya some things you already know. Nothing new, just stuff you’ve heard before.
: As you are today, right this very minute, if your dreams are grand and special enough, you will not accomplish them. You cannot do it. The upgraded you can, and will, but the you of today cannot and will not.
Have you ever thought of undertaking a grand adventure, a big goal, your dream, only to hear that sneaky little voice in your head say something to the effect of “I’d like to do XYZ, but…I’m just not that person…”?
Or maybe the dream-negator spoke in a much, much more subtle manner. You see what you want or would like to be, your heart leaps, but then it sinks back, shrinks back, when you remember all the reasonable reasons you can’t, or shouldn’t, or wouldn’t be able to do such great things.
Truth is, you were right. And, you were wrong. You were right–you can’t do it because you are not the person you need to be, yet. Yet. You can accomplish your dreams if you are willing to change. You must become the person who can do it, and who is willing and able to do what is necessary to make it happen.
Remember: Humans are super-adaptable and capable of brilliant, purposeful change.
“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” -Charles DuBois
There ya go. TGIOF.
#ObviousFriday #ThankYouCaptainObvious
There you go. Now go and become.
Eric
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