75 Hard Day 3 Reaching for the Stars with Short Arms.

 As I was starting my reading for the day the first thing that stood out to me was this quote. " You might as well be one of  life's great starters-but-not-finishers if you do not face the cold reality that you have been willing to stay the same." If you have not ever read the book " Unfuck Yourself Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life" by Gary John Bishop, I highly recommend you run do not walk and pick it up download it listen to in on audio however you prefer to read. It challenges your thought process and how you see not only yourself but the world around you. Mr. Bishop does not mince words when he calls you out. 

I woke up late again. Its not a flaw of mine I just have gotten way too used to going to bed late and getting up late. I used to be a morning person not be able to sleep past 7 but as adulthood emerged and children and being a stay-at-home mom moved forward I got lazy and complacent about getting up. What did I need to get up for? 

In my reading today I read a few things that challenged that thought process. It reminded me that in order to get there I had to allow myself to be there. Something in me was not willing to make my situation better. And recognizing that is often the ignition for change. And not only recognizing it but doing it without falling prey to victim mentality or letting yourself believe that its some personal blip or character flaw. 

Boy, did that resonate with me! The book makes you take a hard look at whether your goals or wants in life are REALLY want you want and if it is are you willing to make the sacrifices to make it happen? Bishop states " If you're not willing to work the extra 10-20 hours a week just to drive up to work in a BMW instead of a Honda give up the complete waste of precious headspace to earn it."

To me that makes me ask myself what I am willing to put my all into vs what I am not willing to do. Am I willing to have me or my husband to work 70-80 hours of work a week to obtain a level of "wealth"? No I really am not. But, am I willing to put several hours a week into getting fit and eating healthy and maybe help a few others on the way YUP! 

This statement reminded me to strive for comfort rather than extravagance and be happy with what I have and fight to enhance and improve it but not to obtain something but for the sheer need for improvement. I am the maker of my response to circumstance and those circumstances can change if I want them to. But the work I put into them deems the result I get from it. 

"Fate leads the willing but drags the reluctant." Seneca

Life won't stop for me being scared or reluctant to act. The world will keep spinning without me its up to me to push myself into moving with it.