Mental Fitness
J.R.
Smith
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“Dealing with issues of making the right but often time’s difficult decision
to do the right thing.”
Making difficult but right choices is, well, difficult.
Oftentimes these choices involve something very personal; a family member; a
child; work or church and more times than not, yourself. And for now we are
discussing YOU.
A transformation is not an easy thing to do; it
requires a lot of work, discipline and accountability. It also requires that
you get up in the morning while you could remain sleeping and do some early
morning cardio exercises. This is where discipline comes in – doing that
thing you don’t want to do. But here is the good news; the more often you do
what you don’t want to do, it really will get easier for you to do. You may
not always like getting up before dawn to exercise but once you have
disciplined yourself to do so, then it won’t be so hard to do.
Making a choice to change is always easy. Choices are
made emotionally for the most part, such as someone saying, “I’m going to
quit smoking.” That is a choice they have made – more of a declaration
really but a choice nonetheless. The real difficult thing is, stopping
smoking. But when that person keeps on smoking that is a choice also. See,
choices are easy to make – it’s the follow through that is difficult.
Millions of American’s are overweight or obese. That is clearly a choice we
Americans have made. But have you seen how many Americans have made the
choice and follow through to do something about it? Not as many as you would
think. That’s because making that decision to follow through is difficult.
It requires absolutely nothing of you to get fat and out of shape other than
do nothing. But transforming requires everything about you; your time; your
energy; your focus; your discipline; family and friends supporting you and
even some help from God.
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But don’t feel like you are alone. Many of us have a
difficult time making the right choices. We are fighting our flesh and too often
our flesh wins out. We can justify why we should lay in bed another half hour.
Really, I know I can. I work nearly 15 hours a day so laying in bed an extra
half hour every morning would really feel good but I also know that the exercise
is going to do a lot of good also.
You may start off slow but I promise you through group
accountability, drawing from the group’s strength and your willingness to remain
committed to the program, you are going to transform and you are going to look,
feel, and perform better every single day of your life. Your family will thank
you, your friends will thank you and your body will thank you.
Have a great transformation!
J.R.Smith –
ISSA, c.f.t. s.p.n.
NBFE board
registered
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