Today I want to talk about embarrassment, that feeling you get when something unexpected and a bit socially scary happens to you. This morning I wanted to use an exercise machine I bought a couple of years ago as part of my routine. The machine is simply two pedal suspended from a bar with a knob to modify resistance. I sat down on my desk chair to begin pedaling, leaned back in the chair and the wood on the bottom of the chair split. I felt mortified and ashamed for few seconds, I wanted to give up, and I called myself every name in the book. I was less than a happy camper.
But then I thought a bit and realized a couple of things. One was that the chair was close to 60 years old and it wasn’t a big loss and it was a bit silly to want to give up over a broken chair. I took the machine over to the sofa and pedaled there. I got about twenty minutes in which was good. I think the second thing I learned is how easy it is to want to give up. Everything we want to do is hard work. There is no miracle that will get you where you want to go and despite what the proverb says the mountain never came to Mohamed. We have to get there ourselves and then we have to climb.
I think getting to the mountain is the realization that you have to do something to change your life. Climbing the mountain is doing all the things you must do in order to accomplish the change. I also believe when we decide to make a positive change the tools we need are given to us in one form or another, as well as the people we need to help guide us. We have to do the physical part of the climb alone we have to use our muscles and minds, but we don’t have to climb alone. There can always be someone there to share the journey.
Today’s Menu was pretty much the same as yesterdays. I had a bagel and milk for breakfast and the Bumble Bee Lunch Kit for lunch with a yogurt. Dinner is going to be light as it is just too hot today to eat much of anything. I know there is some cooked chicken in the frig, I will more than likely have that, with an apple or something else that is light.
I hope you have a great day and I can’t wait to meet up with you tomorrow.