What does that mean exactly? It is acknowledging that you created your life, your failures and successes, and anything else in it, and that you refuse to blame anyone or anything else for the things that went wrong. You accept this 100%.
How can you benefit from this? If you accept that you created all your successes and problems, then it’s likely that you can recreate them also. Usually, most people don’t know how to recreate whatever successes they may have, yet, they’re all too successful at recreating the failures or the wrong things, and that usually comes down to apportioning blame in the wrong place.
Now, some may argue that they encountered a problem where some external event or person completely stuffed them up, and they couldn’t prevent the bad results from occurring despite their best efforts. This is true for all of us. Everyone has encountered such events, but it’s a matter of how you respond to the experience. It all comes down to choice. Do you bog down or get on with it? By choosing to blame external causes, it robs you of the chance to learn, to correct any mistakes, to solve problems. These are valuable skills, but many choose not to practice these skills when the opportunity arises.
And so it is in fitness. The amount of excuses is almost comical. If it’s not your trainer, then it’s the program you’re on, or your spouse, the kids, the weather, the gym, work, stress, money, injuries, it’s uncomfortable, dirty, too hard, you don’t know what you’re doing, they don’t know what they’re doing, can’t be bothered… whatever. The real reason for not losing weight, not gaining weight, missing sessions, eating unhealthy, missing meals, poor routine selection, poor technique in exercise, injury, laziness, apathy, lack of commitment, or anything else, is simply the individual not assuming full responsibility. Everyone has an excuse, except for winners.
It’s now time to act.
So, just how badly do you want to improve; real bad, or not really? Does it matter? The idea that you need to be fully pumped up and passionate about going after your goals is a misconception. The fitness industry is all about selling dreams, a lifestyle a lot are intimidated by. It doesn’t have to be this way. As long as you have your goals and sufficient motivation to do something about it, then you’ll be right. You can deal with any problems when they arise. Educate yourself. Do not rely solely on what others say. Use your common sense. If you only have a fraction of your time to invest then so be it. Trust in the long run that you will achieve your goals. If you’re not getting results don’t just automatically blame someone else, ask, or work out why not.
Yes, it is difficult, but so is everything else. Is it not difficult to think back after years that you could have done something but chose not to? Is it not difficult to be angry with yourself for having let things slip away from you? Is it not difficult to accept frustration and mediocre results? I know I’d rather the difficulty of striving toward goals, than the difficulty of dealing with the lingering bad taste of the “could’ve beens”. Remember, it is hard work, and sustained, persistent effort will get you what you want.
Dare to dream, don’t give up till you reach your dreams, so do something about it. You are the only one responsible for your achievements.
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