Goal weight: 195
Today’s weight: 226
“Get your mind right!”
Coach John Paty, former Sprayberry High School football coach.
Coach Paty’s words rattled around in my head this morning. I didn’t want to get up because I was exhausted. I didn’t want to get out of my warm bed. I didn’t want to drive down to Jackson State in the dark. I didn’t want to dodge the deer (I about hit six). I didn’t want to run on my sore knees and ankles. I didn’t want. I didn’t want.
Get your mind right.
The first drill was a combination of bear crawls, inchworms and sprints (which means lots of moving across the basketball court on your hands and then running.). It was tough. Very tough. My team (who are in much better shape than I am) then went to the weight room where I did primarily upper body weight work. We then went out to the track, ran 100-yard sprints and then did 10 pushups between sprints. Over and over and over and over. Rinse and repeat. The final exercise was doing fast footwork drills inside of stretched out rope ladders and then doing sprints. We kept moving the whole time.
Get your mind right.
Somewhere in the middle of it, I remembered why I was there. I wasn’t just there to lose weight (although I need to do a better job of that this week). No, I was there to get my mind right. To embrace the exercises instead of fighting them. Because when your mind is not fighting change, goals are so much easier to accomplish.
Get your mind right.
Yes, I am there to lose weight. Fifty pounds to be exact. But the weight I’ve put on was just a symptom of a bigger problem. It was a symptom of me being weak mentally. The past year has been a bear. And I got mentally overwhelmed by the changes in my life. I lacked discipline. My spirit was broken. I got negative. And being negative is a cancer on the creative spirit.
Get your mind right.
I am a quarter of the way through the Fit4Change program. I have made huge strides physically. But today was the first day I felt like the mental part was starting to kick in. Today was the first day I “got it.” I will give my best physically. But I will not truly succeed until I give my best mentally.
I have to do as Coach Paty used say. I have to get my mind right.
Hmmmm!! Great food for thought and to put into action. My mountain at times seem to get higher only because I let it. I have got to work on “Get your mind Right.