Sunday Story...Wasting Away

Sunday Story…Wasting away


Are you wasting your life away? Like Jimmy Buffet sang? Wasting away in Margaritaville? Did you wake up this morning in an alcohol induce haze; grab some greasy food in an attempt to stave off the effects of the hangover? Or did you get up and get your rear to the gym, on the road for a little quick run or ride, or a nice long stretch and mobility workout?


Did you spend last week worrying over your increasing waistline? It’s not going to get any better if you don’t take action. You are going to get fatter and fatter and more de-conditioned as you get older. You can’t stop the getting older thing. You have been doing that since the day you took your first breath. You can do something about the rest of it though.


Yes you can. No matter where you are, no matter how bad you think it is you can do something about it.


You can be Great.
You can be everything you want to be.
You can be part of the 5%. The 5% that is great, the 5% that lives life the way it was meant to be lived.

You can’t do it from the couch though.
You can’t do it sitting at your desk.
You can’t do it by talking about doing it.

You have to get up, stand up, and get going.
You have to decide you are going to be great, that you are going to join the 5% of the world that is eating right, working out their physical bodies, exercising their minds, expanding their spirituality, growing their compassion.
You have the power to do this.


Or not. Let’s be brutally honest…95% of the people in the world are never going to do anything. They are fat dumb and happy. Like the cows in a feedlot, contentedly chewing their cuds waiting for the day they are led to the killing room to be whacked between the eyes on the way to becoming just another piece of hamburger. No consciousness, no awareness of something better, no desire, no discipline, no desire for anything but comfort and ease.


Really? Is that who you want to be? Shall we just give you the remote, a crappy cheap beer and some generic chips, sit your butt in front of the 50” big screen and fatten you up for the slaughter big pharma and the crappy food industry are going to lead you into?

If you are reading this (still) you are not that person. Well, maybe you were 10 minutes ago. This is the clarion call to get off your butt and do something. What you have been doing is not working…unless you are already in the 5%. And if you are in the 5% maybe you should work toward the 3%. Or get into the 5% in ALL areas of your life. I know I am not in all areas of my life. BUT I am doing something about it.


Decide. Today. Now. At least if you aren’t going to get to doing the work then make a conscious choice to be in the 95% that is just waiting to be sacrificed at the altar. Yep, John, that’s me…no shut up and leave me to my mediocre existence. I’m happy here, I like being fat, dumb, and happy. I want the blue pill. The red pill is just too hard; it looks like work, struggle, suffering and sacrifice.


The red pill is going to require you change. It is going to require you do lung burning, stomach heaving, and body suffering workouts…daily, weekly, and stretching into the rest of your life. It is going to hurt sometimes. It is going to be painful. It is going to be glorious when you can do things you couldn’t do last week, last month or maybe never in your life. It is going to be amazing when you walk by a mirror and do a double take while you are wondering whose body you are looking at in the mirror. You are going to be stronger, fitter, and healthier.


The red pill is going to change your eating habits. Your taste buds are going to awaken. You are going to learn about new vegetables and how to cook them. You are going to find joy in food again. The unmitigated delight of fresh food prepared simply with love and care. You are going to learn your way around the kitchen. Your bodily functions are going to improve. You mind is going to clear. Clarity and focus and thought are found in the kitchen.


The red pill is going to force you to stretch your intellect. Learning didn’t stop when you left school. Your brain is going to hurt. Your mind is going to suffer with new information overloads. Your intellect is going to grow and be more powerful. You are going to stave off aging diseases like dementia and Alzheimer’s. You are going to learn the things you have always wanted to learn…Geometry, Spanish, Art History. You are going to discover the joy to be found in a well written book, the mystery of a poem penned with care.


The red pill is going to create consciousness you thought was the province of saints and saddhus. Your world is going to grow larger. You are going to be the person we have all been waiting for. Yes you…complete, whole, integrated, compassionate, passionate, understanding and connected. Your beliefs are going to be even greater than yesterday as you begin to understand the true mysteries that exist underneath the thin veneer we all think reality is.


Decide to embrace self discipline. Decide to join the 5% of the world who are really up to something. Decide to be the physical specimen you are meant to be. Decide to be the intellectual power you were supposed to be. Decide to join the world of connectivity and spirituality.


Decide then act. Then keep on acting…in the face of ridicule, in the face of difficulty, in the face of being different, in the face of weakness and fear, in the face of base instincts and craven desires. You are Great. You are Powerful beyond imagining. You are the one we have been waiting for. You. Now get off your butt and go do it.


Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
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