Why is it when you say the word exercise you kind of want to take a nap? (Ok maybe that just me today) Back when we were cavemen, we got our daily exercise by trying to stay alive, you know, outrunning dinosaurs and trying not to fall off cliffs and such. Have our friends try the berries first and if he lived, it was a good day. Today you don't even have to leave your house, because you can have anything delivered with just a tap of your smartphone. But have you noticed they haven't come up with a way to make an app exercise for you.
Yes I know there are tons of apps that will tell you how to exercise but if you don't do what your app tells you to do then nothing changes. We have computers and smart phones that think for us. I mean if you think about it when I was in high school I could rattle off hundreds of numbers of friends, family, the pizza place uptown and probably a dozen other worthless telephone numbers for that all important emergency. I knew how to get any where just by knowing who used to live there or how far from so and so it was. If I didn't have my smartphone, and I had to call someone outside of my immediately family today, I would be in trouble.
So apps will think for us, but they won't work out for us. I'm sure Apple has some sort of MENSA team working on this solution as we speak but are keeping it to themselves until the IPhone 34 comes out and even then it will require some sort of brain link that will, of course, be extra!
Putting my body through the paces and trying to tighten up areas that haven't been tight in a while is not easy and sometimes can seem to be easier to just call it a day and give it the old college try tomorrow, it would be much easier to just tap an app and photoshop my butt smaller.
I get asked where I get my motivation. Some days I'm the Wonder Woman of Motivations, other days I'm like Garfield after consuming a lasagna, motivation persona non grata. I was asked to help a friend try to exercise by another friend. I'm happy to help but how do you do something like that? I know I can "ask" them to join me at the gym, but if they don't, that is their prerogative. I'm not the boss of them even if I am concerned about their health. All I can do is tell them I care for them and I'm here if they need me, but to be honest, they are not going to change until they want to. I know that was true for me and until the doctor said lose the weight or basically be unable to walk when I was old, that was rock bottom enough for me to see the error in my ways take a immediate left into a life change. I'm not saying everyone needs a rock bottom, but I do think everyone needs a mindset to do what I've been doing.
I can't change someone, I know that. I can encourage them when they decide to go on this path. I say that it's 60% mental and 40% physical, because it takes a lot of motivation and will power to get on this path and stay on it. And as in life, there are some fantastic I can't believe I did that days and then there are some kick you in the backside days that make you want to give up and quit. I believe it doesn't matter how many times you fall as long as you always get back up. Self esteem is a nasty emotion sometimes and can make a hole in your soul so deep you can't see daylight. Delusion is a wonderful place to visit, but when you start to set up house there that's when you know you have a problem. I put those emotions down deep and basically just didn't deal with them. I lived on the cross roads of delusional and fantasy for a while. If someone else is there, how do you get them to pack up and move to reality.
I don't have any answer for that. I don't like to preach and sometimes am weary with my answers when I'm ask questions because how much do they "really" want to know. Maybe they were being polite like when you seen an acquaintance and ask them how they are, 95% of the time they say fine even if they are not, and that other 5% give you way more information that you were expecting. So it's a slippery slope.
So how can I help someone start on this path? I write this blog and try to be my witty and entertaining self and if something they read hits a nerve and it gives them the little kick in the butt they need to do something, then PEACHY KEAN JELLY BEAN! I write this blog to cheer myself up, to write down to document where I'm at now and to be able to look back at where I was.
Like I've said before, I'm happy to workout with anyone, call, text, or send smoke signals and I will be there. Making you laugh along the way and hopefully making you feel that you matter enough to take care of yourself. It took me 15 years to come to that conclusion that I mattered enough, I hope when you read this (whomever you are) that you are smarter and quicker than I am and come to this conclusion sooner. I don't dwell of what I missed out on or what could have been, I excel and thrive on what I can do and what I want to do that pushes me each day.
So though I still need my smartphone to contact practically everyone I know and I do use it to calculate a tip when I eat out and when I'm lost and need directions, I have an app for that too. But when it comes to motivation, self-esteem, and determination, there currently isn't an app for that. Just my little brain with a tiny little squirrel that runs in a wheel like his tail is on fire keeping my neurons going and not letting me give up on myself.
So I encourage you to try. I will help if you wish, or if you just need a caring ear or just someone to make you laugh while you walk so it goes by faster (by the way I do know a dirty limerick or two but that is only for those that take me up on my walking offer).
I'm not perfect and I'm not here to preach, I'm just here!
So have a peachy week my friends. Remember you are important and deserve to be at your best!!!
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