Sunday Story...Out of the Bucket

People are crazy-making sometimes. We hear it from all kinds of places, our friends, our relatives, our co-workers, our significant others and strangers. They say things that try to undermine your goals, they say things that ridicule your efforts, and they say things that try to pull you back down in the bucket. Like the story of the crabs in the bucket…when one tries to crawl out the others reach up and pull him back down. Whether its diet, working out, learning new skills or changing your outlook and perspective you can always find a bunch of people who will tell you it can’t be done, that you can’t do it, they tried it and it won’t work or that you aren’t good enough. My favorite is “you’re obsessed.”

You are right I am obsessed. I am not balanced. I have make a conscious choice to pursue something I think is worth giving my entire being over to, at least for this time being. The people who are harsh and intimidating, overbearing and rude can get out of the way. They are the nay-sayers, the status quo crabs trying to keep us down in the bucket.


These are the people who question everything you are doing, the y question valid scientific results, they question your results. These people need to be shut out of your life after you learn from them what not to be. None of what they are saying is going to help you on your journey toward optimum health and fitness, toward your goals of learning new skills or knowledge, toward your building of the life you desire. These people are trying to make you feel stupid and trying to get you off your track.

Although they may wear on you, although they may even have you cast doubt on your mission, you must not let them move you off your path. You must have a strategy to deal with them. What have you done in the past? What will you do in the future? Mediocrity is rampant in our society and misery loves company. When everyone is unhealthy it is easy to be just like them and commiserate about the cost of prescriptions and doctor’s visits. You are the “outlier,” the one outside the box, the one that is forging new paths in new frontiers. You are scary to the crabs in the bucket.


I can’t control those people. They are doing what they are doing because it is what they are doing. It has no bearing on me UNLESS I allow it to pull me from my goals, to avert my eyes from the prize.

Here are a couple ideas:
Don’t take it personally. They are doing it because of them, their fears, their concerns, and their lives, NOT yours. It has nothing to do with you. Their opinion of you, our methods, and your goals is none of your business. Your business is achieving your goals.

Communicate, communicate, and communicate. You might be the one to have been hard or rude to someone in your sphere. Maybe you have invited the criticism by being overly didactic or sarcastic or something. If so, fix it. Take control of your actions and your words. If you want to be your best you must be your best in what you say, what you do, and what you think.

Stay the course. Be the person who keeps attacking, who never gives up, who gets up after falling down, who ignores the slings and arrows of personal attacks and hurtful words, who believes in the aristocracy of individual effort and vision.

You can do this, you can get it done. I believe in you.

Namaste
John
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