Sometimes it Takes a Startling Realization to Change
As I stood naked from head to toe, I thought to myself “How did I get here?”Christmas 2017. We’re staying at a hotel for a family party we do every year. I’m walking around and spot the gym.I pop in and check it out. There’s a scale. I hadn’t been to the gym in a while and knew I had put on a few, so I was curious.My normal walking-around weight is around 180–190 pounds and this was the most overweight I’d been in…ever.Our child had just been born. I was working a lot both at my 9 to 5 and my side hustle. I stopped working out. Eating became a crutch.And time just kinda just has a way of passing so quickly you don’t notice how deeply you’ve fallen into a groove of living below your potential.I knew I had to head into the new year with some sort of inspiration.
So I went back to the hotel room, got undressed, and stared at myself in the mirror.I stared and stared and stared at the image of what I didn’t want to be so I’d be inspired to change.When we got back from the party my plan kicked in immediately. I started working out daily. I couldn’t make it to the gym so I did P90X videos at home. I cooked all my food at home instead of eating out.I’ve had several moments in my life where I realized I needed to snap out of it, I do snap out of it, and then in about three months, I have amazing results and a bunch of momentum even though I was stuck.The way you get unstuck is by doing the equivalent of staring at yourself naked in the mirror.
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