So it's been a long time since I've written in my blog. I'm looking forward to starting up again. My focus will be mainly on fitness but also living a physically and mentally healthy life. My purpose is to encourage and help motivate others.
I had a client look at me the other day and say it's nice to see that you're human. Ha... She caught me eating a Philly cheese stake sandwich. I often quote the phrase perception is more important then truth. I've come to realize that's a dangerous way to think. I am deeply flawed. I fight addictions and bad habits every day. I just am not very open about it anymore because I've fallen into the trap of protecting my image. It's what people perceive and believe about you that is important right? False. That mentality allows you to be two different people. And that restricts me from helping those that need motivation and encouragement the most. A man I highly admire and respect says it's not what you do when everyone is watching that's important.. It's what you do when you believe no one is watching that makes your character!
So now what? You ask.. It's time to get back to the basics for myself and for my clients. The basics in my opinion are exercising hard, eating healthy the majority of the time, and keeping positive growth minded people around you. Participating in activities that challenge you and force you to push yourself mentally and physically. That leads me to Hiking. Hiking has always helped push me to my limits and bring me back to the basics, plus it seems to make me a philosopher... Here we go!
Hiking on a trail is a lot like the path of life. The path of life is full of climbs, descents, peaks, valleys, plateaus, curves, switchbacks, obstacles and detours. You get my point. When I'm on a new trail it's really easy for me to step off my path and get lost or turned around. It's also extremely easy to get off our path in life. Distractions are every which way you look. What do we do? We get back to the basics. We stop, we breathe, we retrace out steps, we see what got us off our path, we get back on the trail and we move forward on our path!
An hour and a half later I'm doubled over breathing extremely heavy after climb after climb, switchback after switchback. I tell myself to move forward to not quit. Don't stop..move! I'm repeating this mantra. Keep moving forward on your path! That divorce won't stop you, that job loss won't stop you, our addictions won't beat us and so many other obstacles we face every day. Don't stop..move forward.. stay focused... i repeat and repeat to myself. I finally reached my destination. It felt good. At the moment I had no thought of what I just endured. I was thrilled that the journey got me to my goal.
We all have different paths and callings in life. No matter what our path is let's encourage others, motivate others, build others up. Help them move forward on there path. Time to get back to the basics. Love you all. Thanks for reading. Brian
