The small things are sometimes the most obvious and encouraging results to what you’ve been trying to do. However it becomes easy to overlook them in pursuit of that large goal you’ve set for yourself. It helps to remind yourself, at least for me, that goals are there to motivate and drive us, not consume us. You have to step back and look at everything, pay attention for the small things and feel good about them.
Yesterday I played catch with a football for the first time in probably 3 or 4 years. It was my 2 brothers and myself. I was making sure to move around, jumping, diving for the ball. Just trying to make it as much of a work out as possible while having fun. After a while both my brothers gave up, “they were tired”, and needed to stop. While I may have been sweating and getting a little tired myself, I was more then ready to continue playing. As I was cooling down, and relaxing it dawned on me. I had just outlasted my two brothers, one of whom is 50lbs lighter and 5 years younger then myself. It was a good feeling. I think I’m becoming the most fit person in the household. While that could be viewed as a sad comment on the state of the people I live with, I think its more a positive comment on the pay off I’m seeing from my work. I have more drive, I can go longer, and I get less tired doing the same physical activities as other people.
I may still be a fat guy, but the inner athlete is starting to emerge I think. He’s fighting to get out, and I know I just have to keep with what I’m doing, continue to refine it, and I’ll get there. That’s a pretty positive and motivating thing to think about.
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