Mentalechoes

It’s been a relaxing weekend. I’ve really had a good time. Somehow I have to convince my work to let me have every second Monday off so I can add an extra day to my weekend every other week. Making the weekends last a bit longer would be just the thing to making life a bit happier.

Well I have been thinking more this weekend about the direction of life, and about changing mine. I think all the posts and all the deep thoughts are finally coalescing to a point where I will begin my change - the change - in my life. I feel ready for it. Sometimes change is as much about timing as it is about the change itself. That sounds a bit zen really.

I’ve had two weeks off doing any exercise or training, and the way my stomach has happily expanded over that time has shown me that change is an everyday thing, though you may not realise it. You may not notice change until some time has passed, but the reality of change is, it happens every day in small amounts. I think it was worth getting a bit of a gut to make this realisation. To understand something conceptually is one thing, but to see your guts getting fatter after eating junk food every day for two weeks is to really believe with conviction!

Looking back now at this blow out I have been living for the last two weeks not training (initially because of a wrist injury and giving it time to heal), it’s like it has been a short term experiment with my life. I swung the pendulum of behaviour to the other side and totally lived opposite to the way I do normally. Watching the changes day by day gave me a much expanded perspective on how changes occur. Most importantly it showed me that insignificant change on a daily basis become a big change when you take in a long time frame. Well maybe that is easy to say and to think you understand, but how many times have we woken up and said to ourselves, shit how did I end up here where I am now? Really if we looked back on each individual day and look at what happened, then we always know how, but we just didn’t notice it happening at the time. By the same token though, how many times have we actively decided to persue something and then worked at it day by day over time, and then acheived it. No matter how big or small.

Day by day, that’s the key! I look down at my fat guts (for me) and I now understand, it’s all about day by day, and planning. It isn’t that hard to plan one day at a time. One day is the easiest of all things to plan out. It’s hard to take in a change over 3 years, but over 1 day, very simple!

Well it’s back to the training routine tomorrow… cause this gut has served its purpose and now it’s time for it to go! Luckily that’s only 14 days!

Padwanna.