Sunday Story...Someday

Someday in the future…
You will lift that weight.
You will be faster.
You will be more coordinated, more agile
You will know more.
You will have the body you are working for today.
You will love more.
You will have more.
You will be more.

Someday is coming. Someday is coming and it may be here sooner than you realize. Yesterday, and the day before that, and the one before that and all the days before have brought you to this day. This day where all the practice and preparation pay off.

Someday is right around the corner. It may already be here. But that doesn’t mean we get to relax or stop striving to get to where we want to be someday. The joy and the pain are in the struggle, the effort, the journey to get where you want to get. We talk of the agony of defeat and the thrill of victory. These things go together like a soup and a sandwich. The journey is the destination. You are going to get there. Just don’t expect it, don’t take it for granted. If you do that it will slip away, slip through your fingers like sand. You will stop walking the path, stop efforting, and stop driving toward the destination.

That person isn’t you. You are not going to stop, you are not going to accept almost, or close or a partial rep or a 9 out of 10 rounds. You are going to get exactly what you want, exactly what you need, exactly what you work for.

Someday. In the mean time you will continue to fight. You will continue to strive, to work, to crawl your way forward. You won’t be like the others. The ones who gave up, the ones that lost that glint in their eyes, that passion for excellence and improvement. You will be a better you. You will be stronger, faster, fitter, healthier, more accomplished.

The key is in the work…the day to day strife that moves us inexorably toward our goal. The joy is in the journey. The pursuit of the thing is what matters. Even if you achieved your biggest goal ever yesterday, today is a new day. Got your best seller done? Start another! Pulled your biggest dead lift? Set a new goal for a bigger one. Graduated from college, grad school, and med school? Figure out what is next. You cannot sit back and rest on your laurels. You are not that person.

Put the laurels up on a shelf next to all the rest of your trophies and get back into the trenches where the work happens. Today and what you have today is the culmination of all your work on all your yesterdays. Same thing for tomorrow. All your todays are adding up to tomorrow.

Someday is today. Get started on someday today.

Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
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