Fit-to-Fat-to-Fit Blog: Quit making excuses

Goal Weight: 195 lbs.

Had an odd dream last night.  In it, Paul Lacoste (the excellent life-coach/trainer who helped me shed my first 45 lbs.) pretty much busted me for making excuses.  I was telling him my situation right now — how my schedule is too hectic, and that I’m too busy, and did I mention that  I’m exhausted — blah, blah, blah.  I told how I didn’t have time to train. While all of that has a grain of truth to it, he was having none of it.  He told me that your life is what you make of it.  And that I needed to quit making excuses. He put me in my place.

Why my subconscious is talking to me in the form of Paul Lacoste, I have no idea.  In fact, I will never eat what I had for dinner last night ever, ever, ever again. But apparently I needed the lecture.  And I heard it loud and clear.

Yesterday I was doing show prep for my show, sitting in the radio show and half-listening to my cousin Dave Ramsey. He was talking about those people you know with all the talent in the world who always tell you their woes. How life is mistreating them. And how they are not getting anywhere.  You know them — the people with amazing amount of talent who never seem to get anywhere because their attitudes hold them back like a boat anchor.  I caught my image in the window and thought, “he’s talking to me.”  It was a moment of powerful self-reflection.

Like many of you, I am tired. I’ve had some pretty annoying things happen to me. I can fill this blog with reasons why I have a right to be angry.  But I (and you) need to let let that go.  When you feel like making an excuse, do the work. Me? Well I have to kick it back into gear and start moving back toward my goals.  Heck, I need to set new goals and start charging after them.  And I need to do it with a smile.

As Mr. Lacoste likes to say, go to the “Next Level.”

P.S. I ran 4.5 miles this morning in 45 minutes and did 50 pushups and sit-ups.