With more than a few extra pounds around my waist and not as much upper body strength as I need. I know it's time to start focusing on the physical well-being portion of my existence in addition to the mental portion, especially with the fitness tests headed my way once I earn my brown belt later on this year. I don't want it to be a pack-test experience where I know the test is coming, but still procrastinate and have to do it unprepared. There have been too many years I have done this and not learned my lesson. I am hoping that experience will cause me to be a little more disciplined to prepare for this testing when the time comes. Today is Monday..Mondays are never much fun. The weekend goes by so fast and next thing I realize is it's 5 am Monday morning and I am back to the weekly routine, having not accomplished much of what I had hoped the week before.
A fresh perspective of Mondays is it's also a new beginning. A time to forget the failures of the past week, month or years and a time to begin anew. This is the day it will all change I tell myself and wonder if this will indeed be the case or whether another week will pass by without any discipline, exercise, catching up on house projects etc.
I have yet to get to the gym as I had hoped I would today. But at least I got a couple nagging errands out of the way which I could have used as an excuse all week long as to why I was too busy to get to the gym. We took the pups out for a walk last night and I think I am going to trade the gym today for the wii board and some stretching and save the z-circuit at the gym for tomorrow after work. I haven't had the amount of water to drink today as I should have. A rock-star energy drink just isn't the same. I haven't eaten too crappy today, but I haven't been healthy either. There's chicken and veggies for tonight's dinner so it's not all bad.
So Monday may be a fresh start, but it still leads me down the same path of most mondays; feeling tired and not guilty enough to start what I know I need to start. Water and the Wii will take place tonight, I don't feel like mustering much more at this point.. tomorrow I begin anew and refuse to let next Monday roll around without at least having made a few baby steps in the right direction. I will workout at the gym tomorrow.
Thought for the day: "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them." Denis Waitley
As I stumble down this path, I refuse to accept the conditions as they exist... I fully accept the responsibility for changing them. Will you come along for the ride?
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