No Excuses

So I said before that my mom and I have recently joined a gym. I love the gym, for those who know me you know that I can have a bit of a temper on me....just a tiny one though haha. But honestly that's just part of who I am. I am competitive, (like everyone) I don't enjoy losing to much and yeah haha. When I was younger I use to play a lot of sports and that would always help me release energy and stress you know, it was good for me. But I havnt played sports like on an actual team in a long time so going to the gym now has helped me alot with just feeling happy and not feeling like so stressed you know. And of course it's better fore my health and all that combined is great. However, eventhough all these reason are valid reason to why I love going to the gym there is one more specific reason why I love my particular gym :]

My gym is your normal everyday gym. It has trainers and all the machines you can think of and people of all ages go there! But the gym is connected to a senior living center. So there is a few more seniors there than in a normal gym I guess. But they are awesome!! haha Straight there is this old lady who goes everyday, and she has her little oxygen breathing machine with her. She's there with her oxygen tubes in her nose doing her excercises. This other lady is in one of those like scooters (not reallya  wheelchair but she cant walk without so kind of the same idea) but she still goes everyday to do her weights! Then there's this one old man comes in like takes him forever to walk from the entrance to the locker room, he has a cane and he is there right next to me doing the rowing machine!! Now obviously there not dong INTENSE workouts like the rest of us and they go for like 20 minutes and they're out but still, everyday they go for at least a little while! There's others too these are just the ones i see all the time. Oh and I dont say "old man" or "old lady" in a mean way I say it as a term of endearment haha seriously these people are my heroes right now!

I am thankful for them at my gym because they remind me of one simple rule in life....NO EXCUSES! Seriously I can't wake up and say "oh I feel sick", or "I'm tired today", or whatever because well....with ALL THE RESPECT...they cant breathe and they still go to the gym!!! I literally have no excuse to not go to the gym when I have plenty of time in the mornings! They are my motivation to get my butt to the gym everyday and keep myself healthy. And well you know you have to take the lessons you learn and spread them to all parts of your life And that's what I want to do with this lesson. You can't not do good thinsg in life, or things that might seem hard or scary just becasue you are afraid to be out of your comfort zone. This might seem "mean" but either you do it or you don't, either you succeed or you dont but dont make a bunch of excuses. Just live with the choice and with the outcome. It's ok to lose or to fail a few times by the way...that's how you learn and grow. I'm just saying we need to except when we have fallen short either because we tried and it did not work out (which then we can learn from our mistakes) or we did not give it our all. You can't blame other people for your life, it's your life.

If you know what you have to do to make things "right" and if you CAN do these things(sometime we need to recognize that we can't), then you should do them. In school, at work, at home with family, with friends, or in your own individual person. No Excuses, do what you have to do and no blaming everyone else.

So thank you old people, elderly people, wiser people (whatever you want to call them hahah) at my gym, you motivate me to continue this new life style I'm trying that involves more than just going to the gym and even though it is hard for me at time because as I've said long projects lose my interest at times haha, you have reminded...NO EXCUSES

CHALLENGE: I think this one is pretty self explanitory...In anything you have to do in life. School work, job work, or just in general bettering you life, yeah trust me I know it's hard but it can be done. So just remember this week and hopefully for the rest of your life...Do what you know you have to do, no excuses.