You only make excuses because you can

Yesterday when I went to my gym to exercise I was feeling pretty low; some things in life weren’t working out as I had planned and I was feeling my resolve starting to spin down. I was worried my motivation would quickly follow. Excuses began flooding my head about why things shouldn’t be this way. It should all be the way I want it, and if it’s not, then life had been unfair; or that’s how it was when I walked out of the change room onto the exercise floor.

Then I saw a young woman who wouldn’t have been much more than early 20′s. She was walking a bit funny as she approached a bench press machine and loaded it up with pretty respectable weights for someone her size. It took a moment to notice because of the very true-to-life manufacturing, that she was wearing a prosthetic leg. It was attached on her right side about mid thigh. This woman then got on the bench press machine and hammered out 4 sets with serious intensity. I watched her on and off for about three quarters of an hour as she went from machine to machine working out in a way that made everyone else look like lazy bastards.

You know, if anyone deserved to be making excuses about why life was shit, it was her. But then she wasn’t making excuses, she was in there giving it 100% and looking good doing it. The realisation hit me that we make excuses because we can. And we allow those excuses room to affect our resolve and motivation because we simply do.

That young girl taught me that you can make excuses if you want, but you can also get in there and make the best of it!

Life aint over until it’s over!

Andy.

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