Sunday Story…Pulling the Trigger

As we enter the season of feasts and parties and over-indulgence it is important to recognize this fact: We all have triggers. Thos things that start us on a cycle of overeating or drinking, a cycle of social media rage, or something that feels like it forces us back into our shell. That trigger leads us into a cycle, or more likely a spiral where we continue our behavior even though we know it is detrimental to our overall health/fitness/mental state.

The first question is can you see the cycle? Can you see how it doesn’t work for you in your life? The continuous twitter war with some internet trolls that gets you fired up over something and keeps you fired up for days returning over and over again to the scene of the crime? To break the cycle, to stop the spiral stop pulling the trigger.

Do you know your triggers? Do you know what will start that downward spiral? It is hard to stop a spiral once it starts. It takes a tremendous amount of willpower to cease a cycle once it has taken hold. It is much easier to not pull the trigger at all. It is much easier to control that trigger, to eliminate that trigger than it is to stop the cycle.

Decide to stop pulling the trigger before you are in the pull of the spiral. Eliminate the trigger, eliminate the cycle. Simple, not easy.

John Mariotti
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