Taking the Steps to Be All You Can Be – Part One
”Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. At first it may be but a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.” — Tryon Edwards
I wish I could tell you that making a change is easy. It isn’t.
UNLESS! There is always a catch isn’t there. Unless you decide to can make a change and you keep your eye on the reward and not on the rough road to get there. The change won’t be easy – but the final destination will be sweet. Take working out. Ever NOT want to go to the gym to workout. You have to “prime the pump”, give yourself a pep talk, just to get up and get going to do something that is good for you – AND YOU KNOW IT! When you finally do get the energy to go workout, put yourself through the paces, at the end of the session, you are glad you did. It wasn’t easy, it maybe wasn’t convenient, but you have a sense of joy and accomplishment that you took a step to make your self better!
CRlogonobackgroundI wish I could tell you that making a permanent change takes 21 days. It doesn’t (unless you keep working on it!).
You can work hard and make a huge effort do things different over the next 21 days than what you did in the past, but if the habit that has you, and has been part of you for 10, 15 or 20 years, Coach Rozy’s information and education, and you being part of the 52 Steps To Reaching Your Performance Edge in Life doing something different and out of your norm for three weeks might not be long enough to make a lasting change. You might have to work longer and harder to knock that monkey, which is now a full size gorilla, off your back.
I’m an eater. Come from a family of eaters. We would determine how the success of an event was, if it was a good or great vacation, and if a family get together ended on a positive note by how good the food was. Sometimes the food didn’t even have to be great if there was a lot of it. More meant better in my book. To this day, I have to fight the “Volume Monster” when I eat. I’ve gone 21 days eating right, I’ve gone months eating right, and when I see a buffet, get the kids back, make sure there are no limbs hanging over the buffet table. Oh, and please observe the 15 foot safety barrier, because it’s on baby. The “use a small plate”, “eat small portions”, “eat slowly” are out the window. Using a small plate and eating small portions only means I need to go back more times (maybe the extra walking back and forth to the buffet line helps burn calories – guess not!). My point is, even after weeks and weeks of making positive changes, when I’m back in old surroundings I revert back to old ways. Change for me is a lifetime event – but that’s ok with me, because I plan to live my whole life, and not be dead before they bury me (but that’s a different topic for another blog).
I wish I could tell you that once you make a change it will last forever. It won’t (unless you keep working on it! Get the point – CHANGE TAKES WORK!).
The saying “Old habits die hard” is really true. There are reasons we do what we do, how we do them, when we do them, where we do them. It makes up our inner self, what we are and who we are. Changing that make-up is continually a work in progress. If once people made a change and it stuck – there would be a whole lot of people out of work. Again take dieting. The numbers are amazing of the people that lose weight, put it back on and lose it again. Just think how the world would be if once we lost the weight it would stay off and the change was permanent. When we worked out, long and hard for months and months, the physique we had worked to develop stayed in place. WOW – wouldn’t that be heaven. Sad to say it doesn’t work that way. Progress begins by taking one step and then following with another. Working toward your performance edge isn’t a jump, it’s taking small steps to the ledge and seeing what is in front of you – and then gaining the knowledge, the courage and the determination to take one more step!
Over the next few weeks – and this year – we plan to put in place a step by step guide to show you how to make those changes and live the life of success you want. So here is your TO DO for the week. I need you to get a notebook, binder, a journal or something to keep our ideas, thoughts and comments down on paper. During the weeks that follow, you’ll be getting more ACTION STEPS to take every Monday!
The only other task we ask is that if you have friends or others that you know that might benefit with this program, send this to them and let them know to check back with www.coachrozy.com every Monday to change their course and change their life. I look forward to hearing from each of you. More important, I look forward to being part of helping you SHARE YOUR DREAM AND LIVE YOUR PASSION.
Until next Monday – Coach Rozy
PS- don’t forget to check with us for WEDNESDAYS EXERCISE OF THE WEAK – and also our FRIDAY FITNESS TIPS. Have an amazing week.
