Hi team
Today's workout was done as soon as the rain cleared!
I have been going through old notes again and I thought this maybe useful advice for everyone.
Getting out of a Rut
What do you do when the rug has been pulled out from under you?
Have you ever been in a situation where the world just came crashing down around you and you couldn’t even focus on what was in front of your eyes?
Have you ever been in that situation where you hear devasting news and all you can hear is your heart beat and your eyes goo out of focus and you can’t remember how to move you body or lips and you want to get some words out but you feel paralysed?
How do you recover from that?
How do you regain your senses and emotions?
How do you then regroup and start a new?
There are people out there that will spend the rest of their lives, in that moment and relive it over and over again until it consumes them and their identity becomes that one devastating moment in their life.
But, not us, and defiantly not you, we all have those times but you are different you are stronger than that, you are more definiant than that.
They will say “This is what happened to me, you don’t understand. Nobody does.”
You will say “That happened, I was sad and depressed and now what?”
You know that one moment in your life does not define who you are.
You know that yes it will be time to grieve or be sad but you know that time heals and moments in your life can spring board you into something more meaningful.
We don’t panic and we create a strategy of moving forward and creating an identity that this awful moment has made, in a chink of our armour that makes us stronger.
Our strategies have to start with looking within ourselves and making hard choices and descisions.
“Am I making the right choice for me right now to become a better and step forward out of the darkness?”
Or “Am I making a choice out of fear and desperation so the darkness will stick around ?” Because for some of us, we get used to being in a bad situation it becomes a norm for us. We make and accept excuses, to let the little things slide and we ignore the work that needs to be done. This is when you values start to change and you start to accept a level of living that you, your family and your younger self will be disappointed with
Have you ever been in a situation or done something and thought.
“This is not me. Why am I doing this?”
There is choice to make at any moment like that,
Make the excuse and justify your thoughts and actions
Realise your core values and decide if that action is in line with your value and who you are as a person and how you want to be seen.
Do you have friends that keep you check? Or are they people that courage you to stay in the circle or slumps? Because they are in the same slump?
“Birds of a feather flock together”
Remember you are the average of the 5 people you hang out with the most.
So make sure those people are people that encourage you to thrive and get better and challenge your choices and values to keep you in check and not reinforce your negative thoughts, you want people to help you get out of a rut not people that look at you and say “I understand” or dramatise the rut you are in, feeding your insecurities and fears.
Be deliberate with your choices and actions and behaviours.
Moments in your life that hurt and scar you are the chinks in your armour to make you stronger.
Be thoughtful in who you want to be and take time by yourself to enjoy what you want
Be decisive with your tribe, keep the ones that want you to succeed not the ones that want to drag you back to awful moments in your life.
The past is history, the future is a mystery
And you can solve that mystery with a smile on your face and with the right choices and behaviours.
Clean and press 60kg
Chin ups 30kg
Deadlift 150kg
Curls 60kg
Dips 50kg
Ab wheel
Chris
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