Imagine you have been given a choice to make for someone you love. One choice gives the person a productive happy life, and though its filled with challenges and hard work, the benefits will allow them to extend their time on this rolling ball of dirt. The other, while given to indulgence and a lack of struggle everyday, will gradually erode the quality of life and shorten it, taking them away from the people they love. Pretty easy choice right? K so let me ask you a question, if its easy to make that choice for someone you love, why arent we making these choices for ourselves?
Now of course I dont think people go and make the choice to be a bloated couch potato with pizza and chinese on speed dial. I sure didnt. But its not doing anything. Its simply letting this lifestyle engulf you and take over. It keeps you from achieving anything but a bigger waist. The slope to mediocrity is very slippery and its worse when the people around you are doing the same. And the deck is assuredly stacked against us from childhood on. Society seems to embrace the mediocrity of existance, making going to a fast food restaurant and watching a movie on the fiercest of enemies the couch seem like an exciting existance.
But there is another way. as sure as I am typing this. I can tell you about having the living hell scared out of me and changing every single facet of what I do. Alcoholics that ive talked to who have been sober for an extended period of time equate getting to the lowest point of their existance as the only time they were able to change, and i had my own low point right there. And now 85 pounds lighter, stronger than Ive ever been and decidedly more optimistic about life and the state of the world, Im here to be an ambassador for whoever wants to come over to this side. Im offering you empowerment, struggle, challenges galore, victories and failures along the way and a real chance to make your life better than you thought it might be. There are alot of people like me out there, and if you arent anywhere near NYC itll have to be someone else but me(for now bwahahahhaahaha) but help is there.
Nows the time for a "checkup from the neckup" as my jiu-jitsu professor likes to say. Its a decidedly simple question. Are you happy? Then decide what to do.....
