I must admit, I am a little groggy this morning but I am up and running. Even though I am on day 2 of working out, I feel that I have leaped on a big hurdle. The reason for this feeling is because of what I did last night. I got off work even later last night and I had to make a stop. By the time I got home it was about 8:30-8:45pm. On top of me getting home late, it was raining. Here it was the second day after I had made a commitment and it decides to rain. I contemplated for a minute and then I thought about what I posted yesterday and I said, "let's get it!" I geared up and put on a hoodie and some gloves and I begin to run. As I journeyed through the wet street and the rain in my face i started thinking. The first thought that came to me was about how people always find a reason to stop before they find one to keep going. I started asking myself questions like why would a person do themselves that way. Why would you give up so easy if this was something that you really wanted. I guess I answered my own question. You have to want it bad enough and if you give up that easy, you didn't want it bad enough.
Then I begin to think about all of the things we do that we make a sacrifice for that could possibly bring confusion to our lives. We sacrifice our bodies sexually despite the consequences. It's as if we are willing to make that sacrifice for the THAT feeling for a moment but won't sacrifice time and energy to better ourselves for more than just a moment. This to me is AMAZING! When I thought about this, I made up my mind that no matter what was going on, I was going to make it my business to work out. I don't care what time I get home or what is going on. This is how we have to be about things that we want to accomplish in life. My wife asked me once, why is that when you come across some extra money, something always come up. I told her it was because you don't prepare yourself during the time when you don't have the extra money. You have to prepare yourself even when you don't have. In order to do this you are going to have to make a sacrifice.
We have all of the resources to make anything happen. All we have to do is just do it. I refuse to tell someone ten years from now about something I could have done. I refuse to sit around with the fellas talking about all of the great ideas and great books I could have written. At the end of the day, ten years from now, I will be telling stories about how I endured the hard times and got the book finished. I will be telling stories about how I ran in the rain to break the cycle of stopping. I will be telling stories of how I made a choice to not go out drinking with the guys for a few weekends in order to get this book finsihed. I refuse to tell of the "could have been" stories. I will be telling of the "is stories." These are the stories about what actually happened in order for me to accomplish my goals. Will your story be of "could have been" or "is?"......It's your choice, what do you choose?
-I will make it-K.J Swint
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