In yesterday’s post, we talked about taking action. About putting forth an effort. About trying.
I gave a vague description of what trying is not…
I don’t mean that little try my 2 year old gives me when I ask him to get up. That “fake” try.
I realize that is still pretty vague, so let’s get in the weeds just a bit on what it means when I say “try.”
For our purposes, author Les Brown puts packages it up nicely…
You must tell yourself, ‘no matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.’
That is what I mean by “try.”
Not that you went on a low carb diet today, and decided that it was too hard tomorrow.
Not that you did heavy squats this week and you decided you didn’t like being sore so I won’t ever do them again.
That is not trying. That is giving up when it gets hard. That is not wanting the results enough. You didn’t fail, you never even got started.
I don’t know how many times I was guilty of this before I finally “got it.” But the thing is, once the concept of really trying something sinks in, there is almost nothing that you won’t be able to do.
It’s like planning to go to the beach, so you put a cooler in the car. And then you sit back down on the couch and watch TV and never finish packing and never start driving. Did you really “try” to go to the beach? No.
For many, many of us, we don’t fail to burn fat or build muscle. If we fail at anything… it is this…
We fail to try.
Resolve today to try. Put it in writing in the comments below. What to you resolve to try?
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