Sunday Story…Get Up and Go

…even when your get up has gone. We all have days when we really don’t want to get up and do what we know needs to be done.

So what are you going to do to get your Get Up going?

Revisit your goal(s). Go back and take a look at what you are trying to accomplish. This is the reason we write our goals down. We want to go back and take a look and remember the what and why we are doing what we do. No goals? Get some. Now. This is the now that is right now. So…Write.Them.Down.Now.

Revisit your success (es). Take a good long look at how far you have come already. You are tracking your progress aren’t you? Of course you are. Take a look back and see how far you have come. Way back in the day before GPS we used a paper map. This map would show us where our journey began, where we are presently and how far we had to go. Looking back and seeing how far we have come will remind you of why you are doing all the work you are doing. Gaze back at were you started and see all the dividends your hard work has already paid.

Revisit your nemesis. Are you going to let that so and so beat you? Whether it is someone else in the gym, a skill you are trying to master, or a weight you are trying to lift are you really going to give up in your quest to get that goal done? Sometimes the best motivation is hitting a short term goal or matching a score on the board. Something got your goat? Get in there and get after it.

You started on this journey with fire in your belly and steel in your eye. You had a place you were going to get to come hell or high water. Your get up and go is still there but sometimes the going is going to be boring or hard or tiring or just resistant. That is when you get out your goal book, your progress book and remember just what it is you are on this crazy boat ride for.

And if none of that works…Suck it up buttercup and do it anyway. Do it because you said you would do it. Do it because you know it needs to be done. Do it because it is what you do.

Just Do It.

Namaste

John Mariotti

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