I am going to make this one super, duper simple. We are all
masters (of Jedi proportion) of one thing more than just about anything else in life: justifying our own bullshit.
What do I mean by
this?
When we crawl into the little cracks in our pointed little
brains each night, we justify the decisions we made that day. We also justify
the decisions we didn’t. We give ourselves reasons that we failed. But fail to
realize that those reasons are really just excuses in disguise.
Like what?
We justify staying in dead in jobs, in unsatisfying relationships.
We give ourselves justification for not speaking up, not speaking out and not
speaking out loud. We allow fear and doubt to control us to the point where we
become masters of justifying our own shortcomings. And then, then we do the
unthinkable: we allow other people in our lives to do the exact same thing.
We don’t hold anyone in our lives accountable to themselves.
When they fail, we allow them to fail. Then, we allow them to fail over and
over again. We do the same things to ourselves.
But why?
We are all living on borrowed time. And, maybe, just maybe
it’s time to think about something I have been thinking about for awhile now:
What legacy will we leave behind when the sands of time of our lives run out?
It’s not who dies with the most friends, the most toys or
the largest collection of things or baubbles who dies the happiest. It’s the
people who gave so much in their lives that they left something behind that will
never be forgotten. The people whose legacies became legendary.
So, why not you? Why
not now? Why not me?
I have wasted so many days, so many nights justifying my own
nonsense in my own head, instead of crawling out of my thwarted thought processes
and just dealing with them, head on. That’s what Project Gratitude, Project
Manifest and Project Complete are all, ultimately about. It’s the journey of
getting out of my own comfort zone, or giving more and of believing that higher
standards of living are not only possible, but mine for the taking.
All I had to do was
one simple thing: Decide.
And, perhaps, that’s all you have to do too.
So, I am going to put my head on the chopping block of
accountability. You ready?
1. I have struggled with an on again off again addiction
to cigarettes since I was 12-years-old. I have come to realize that I am
wasting my time, destroying my body. Tomorrow, Tuesday the 22nd of
October, I commit to a cleanse. Thirty days, with supplements designed to help
me stop smoking, to clear my lungs and to preserve my health for as long as I
can.
2. I have struggled with not keeping accountable to
my workouts. It’s time to change that. I am committing to getting back into a
routine of going to bed by 11:00 pm each night and getting up at 6:00 in the morning
to re-commit to my physical fitness, to a body I can be proud of and, more than
that, to my health.
And while I realize these are just two small things for some
people, they are two large ones for me. I am committing to not being a master
of justifying my own bullshit. At least, not anymore.
Join me?
And of course, I’m going to have to leave you with a theme
song. Hey, it’s what I do….
There are so many reasons not to....There are so many that will HELP you
ReplyDeleteStay predictable...
Only one way to be constantly aware of positive opportunities, be constant and true to the quiet in your minds eye telling our that no internal justification or play action decision making needed.