Sunday Story…Start to be Great

Every person who walks through the door at CrossFit Odyssey is an athlete. Outside the door they may be a Doctor or Lawyer, mom or dad, brother or sister but once they grace our door they become an athlete.

You might think of yourself as weak or out of shape but in here you are an athlete. In here you are unpolished marble waiting to be molded into something amazing. You are meant to move. You are a human aligned with the natural world…top of the chain baby.

You might get up in the morning and put on your uniform for your designated job but once you step in here your job is simple…be an athlete. And that translates to world changer.

When you change yourself you change the world. It is that simple. Are you going to drag the world down by sitting on the couch all day long? Or will you lift us up with your positive attitude and kind words, your hair on fire enthusiasm and no obstacle too large thought process?

It is never too late to get up and get going. You can always be more than you were just a moment ago. You can always choose to change your attitude. You can always choose to be better. You can always decide to be benevolent and give people the benefit of the doubt. Life is a series of choices.

You walked in my door today. Some of you did so literally…you showed up here in the box and did work. Some of you did it ethereally…you opened this email and read the words. And I am standing in front of you telling you can do this…you can change the world by changing yourself. You can be bigger, more powerful, more charitable, friendlier, stronger, healthier, more fit…if you would only just start.

You don’t have to be great to start.
You do have to start to be great.

Walk through the door, put on the uniform of athlete, great parent, model employee and get started. Don’t worry about doing everything right…you won’t, mistakes will occur. Don’t worry you aren’t good enough…you are doing battle and it is the one in arena who matters, not the critic, not the nay-sayer.

Get dirty, hot, sweaty, and if necessary bloody literally or metaphorically. But get in the fray. Do not allow yourself to be beaten by negativity, by disbelief, by poor attitudes. You are great. You walked through the door.

Fall down seven. Get up eight.

Namaste

John Mariotti
www.crossfit-odyssey.com
www.sunday-stories.blogspot.com
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