Direction

I was going through a good buddy's facebook the other day, (no I'm not a stalker), and I came across this photo. I quickly glanced at it and went to the next photo as most of us do, but then I thought to myself why would that be a picture? I went back and looked at it for a few minutes, and my first reaction was this better not be some hippie che guevara crap with the word 'revolution'. But thinking about it, these four words can mean something totally different to me, you, or anybody else reading it.

Everyone in this world is 'fighting' some sort of battle. Divorce, money troubles, weight issues, self esteem issues, whatever whatever. We are all dealt a different hand of cards, but how we play them is up to us. Do you fold, and make an excuse or do you possess the energy to fight back? Taking on life's curve balls are never easy, but how we respond to the suffering is how our character is shaped. So looking at this note card again, where are you now and where are you headed?

Do you want to be just like everyone else, making excuses for being fat, unhappy, slow, etc etc. Whatever the case may be, you have the ability to change it. But the question stands, what are YOU going to do about it? You are twenty five pounds overweight, a relationship is falling apart, you are not doing so well at work...? What is your course of action to better yourself?  Revolution time.
At CrossFit Deep Ellum we started our 3 month paleo challenge today. I urge all of you to not think of it as a challenge but a way to change your life. Yes, loosing weight will be awesome, but is not the way we feel inside, the way we sleep and the way we move more important? Changing our eating habits has so many more positive effects on us than we think. Yes eating whole foods is a big change to most of us because it was not how we were raised, and its all too easy to eat something from a drive thru. But how important is sleeping better, feeling better, and looking better naked to you? This is CANNOT be a 3 month 'challenge' that at the end of it we go back to putting crap into our bodies. This is a 'challenge' that changes your life, that improves your life, that might even save your life. I'm not kidding. It is going to be difficult, but look at all the people that showed up on Sunday to do it? We have a support system, lean on them, the coaches, or how about lean on the faith that you should have in yourself. If you have an urge, put your foot down, have the resolve and energy to fight back. Do not resign. Today is the beginning of your own personal revolution.

"Declare war, on yourself, on your thoughts, on your inner-demons.  Cut away all distractions.  Place yourself on "deathground," where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out or die." (SD)

For all your life you have been eating the crap food we tell you not to eat and this is where it has gotten you, unhappy with your body and your fitness. So what is it going to be make excuses, be a quitter, and resign? Or will you take on your own personal revolution?

It won't come easy, just as anything worth 'fighting' for doesn't. How bad do you want to change? What are you willing to give up and do, to see that your goals are fulfilled and stay fulfilled? Take a look at that note card one last time, where is your dot...look at yourself inside and out...and plot that dot, just make sure you are doing everything possible to move it.

Every morning look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you are doing everything possible that day to become a better athlete, mother, father, brother, sister, boyfriend, girlfriend, human being... Do it. stare yourself down and be tougher than the person that stared back  the day prior, declare war and be free.