Blimey!

A lesson in life last night!

Theres an old saying that there’s two types of people in the world;
those who physically “put” themselves into the future by planning what
they want to experience, finding success no matter what the cost and
those who procrastinate, rush everything through at the last minute, take
shortcuts and never realise the beauty of what could have been.

Charles Darwin had a name for that.

“Evolution!”

Now I don’t subscribe to point of view 100% because I believe
you and I are both at different levels of evolution in different ways.

I do have to say that because I’ve personally been experiencing
“missing all that heavenly glory”. I’ve been looking at my finger instead of the moon.

I’ve found myself rushing around my flat in Moortown all night
hunting high and low for bank statements and receipts. Inland Revenue Huh?
Now I know what you’re thinking… “that’s not the greatest way to start a gorgeous
sunny Wednesday morning in late May, Jason!”

You’re right of course but then I had a massive Ah-Ha! moment. A NOW
moment so profound I suddenly understood exactly what it felt like.
What it’s like to be out of shape and overweight and facing the prospect of a summer
surrounded by seemingly lithe and nubile bodies. I mean it wasn’t really
my fault that I’ve left my accounts until the last minute.

I didn’t pack my own file boxes for one, so I didn’t really know
where anything was. Plus it would have cost too much: my time
is far too valuable planning courses to spend a few minutes each day
or at the end of each week organising my finances properly. I was simply
too busy to fit it in, you know, life got in the way. Then there’s the fact
that to do accounts you need to be a brain at maths and it took me 2
failed attempts and I even had to hire my own out of school tutor to succeed
the 3rd time.

I suddenly realised this was all nonsense. I was being the Mad Hatter, Alice
AND the March Hare all rolled into one! Can you imagine that?
With a kettlebell in one hand and a war hammer in the other?
Oh dear, It finally sunk in, it really was time to take a reality check.

So I’ve decided to take a leaf out of my own fitness book…starting now. I’ll exercise
my numeracy and accountancy skills at least twice each and every week
from now on. I’ll make damn sure I’m not in this position again by tasting
the bitterness of this moment in my memory whenever I don’t feel like training
my “number brain” (cool huh, I’m gonna copyright that 🙂

I know the excuses I told myself were bunkum because the only moment that matters
is Now and how I got here. What really matters is how I choose to experience things
right Now.

Time to build a new road to the reality I want to be in. The one i really want.
I’m building it too. You watch. Step by step, cobble by cobble I’ll lay down that road.
No matter what it takes, no matter what the cost.

And you can too!

Which type of person are you going to be?

You can decide to accept your imaginary limitations like the adult Elephant who
is chained to a huge tree trunk as a baby and still believes he can’t escape the tiny stick
in the earth and the piece of orange string now imprisoning him.

Or you can do something amazing with yourself. You can decide to know you’ll
continue no matter what. You can decide to procrastinate or you can take action
now and build your own personal road to any kind of success you want.

You never know, happiness may just decide to keep you company for part of the journey.

Stay on top of it!

Jason