Every step of my journey so far comes back to those 9 words, "LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE".
It started with me admitting that I wasn't entirely proud of how I had put myself on the back burner for so long and let myself slide; so I made a commitment to changing that.
I got the opportunity to go to a gym and tried to come up with excuses and reasons not to go because I was worried about how I'd look/feel walking in there; I sucked it up, reminded myself of my commitment and walked in there.
I could have easily clammed up and not talked to anyone at the gym because we may not have had anything in common, but I didn't; I talk to everyone who I'm training with and have made some great new friends because of it.
I could have stuck with the same few classes at the gym because they weren't too tough and I knew what to expect but I won't get to where I want to go by playing it safe so I tried harder classes that I wasn't even sure I was ready for. Oh and I survived, so I can assure you that you will too!
I had the opportunity to do a personal training session because I had helped out with childcare and could have put off doing it because I didn't want to have my ass kicked but I sucked it up and sure I felt like puking but I felt great for getting through it.
I had the chance to nominate myself to win a free month of personal training and I almost didn't. I know almost every other nominee personally and am friends with a majority of them. I had a really hard time basically saying, "pick me over one of my friends", so I almost didn't enter because I think we were all equally deserving. On the day before submissions were due, I finally did it, I wrote my self nomination essay; I wrote about exactly why I felt that I deserved to win. Guess what? I won second prize!
I now have a meeting tomorrow at this other gym to take a tour and talk about what I want to do and I'm having a hard time with it. I am in love with everything that JDFT has given me and done for me already and I feel almost like I'm betraying them or cheating on them by even going to this other gym. I'm afraid to train with someone new, someone who may not "get it" like they do at JDFT, of going to a new gym, of being the new girl again but I also signed myself up for this because it's a great opportunity. I'm not going to to turn my back on my second home or go MIA for a month because I'm training somewhere else as well, it's just going to be different that's all and different is not always a bad thing.
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