FatManChronicles

So I am am up and it is 5:30 am. I apologize in advance if this blog comes out a little groggy. Why am I up at 5:30 am… because I am a fatty in need of reform. I used to get up early but haven’t had to for about 2 years or so.

I will be honest…. I will miss not sleeping in.

But, I will survive. Because our choices dictate where we end up in a lot of routine day-to-day life. So here I am at the butt crack of dawn with pouring rain outside my window trying to muster enough determination to roll out of bed and begin my day new and fresh and with purpose.

You know we all have excuses for what we don’t want to do. Whenever we encounter it we shield ourselves with our excuse. The only problem is we don’t realize that most people around us see right through our excuses and see it for what it is. People will come to accept the fact of how you make decisions for yourself. They will hear your excuses, watch you live out the excuse for your own reasons, and a lot of time set their value of you based on your personal standard with living with your excuses.

So many people just live out their excuses and settle with it. We tailor our lives around the excuses we make. I settled with it. I lived with excuses for myself and I found it led to areas of my life being unremarkable.

Excuses cost too much. We think we are giving an excuse for one item but we don’t realize that our decisions define our personal standard. Our choices throughout the day is a direct reflection of our personal standards. Tony Robbins says it well, “We get what we MUST have.” If you must have sleep you got to bed earlier. Some people’s “MUST” are out of wack, just look at their finances. We are not fooling anyone. We are not fooling our kids, our boss, our coworkers, etc. Most of them see right through our daily excuses and just accept us for who we choose to be or maybe don’t accept us. The only problem with that is “unremarkable” starts to creep into important relationships that we don’t want to be filled with “unremarkable”. It cost to much in the long run. Your excuses may get a free pass for the item they were intended for but don’t fool yourself, they are taking their payment in your life and most likely the areas affected most are your relationships and success towards your dreams.

It was easier for me to be ok with areas of unremarkable in my life because when I was single it was about me and no one else. I have always had big desires and dreams for myself but never seemed to fully connect the dots on why my life has added up to important areas remaining unremarkable due to my choices. I had dreams but no personal standard. You can’t get far with that combination. I was doomed to fail.

But this morning I get up and change my standard and this concept is here to greet me. Welcoming me to a new way of defining my future, by defining my personal standards by the habits, words, thoughts & actions I take on a daily basis. And I am up…… My excuse to stay in bed this morning doesn’t win today. My future wins. My health wins. My dreams win. I win.