Today is Blue Monday. A day invented by marketers that symbolizes the most depressing day of the year.
The good intentions have failed.
It's cold and bleak.
Still corona.
“I just have to do it.”
“I have to stop procrastinating.”
“Tomorrow I will really succeed.”
Just some statements that I heard around me in recent weeks.
Not really yay.
Now my intention with this blog is to make your world stronger.
That's what we do at Enforce.
We make you stronger, so that you can live life with more energy.
At parties or networking events, people ask what I do.
This is the reason for many of them to tell me why they are unable to become fitter.
Reasons we all know.
No time, no motivation, an injury, blah blah.
In the past, I would convince and motivate them.
Result: they explained to me why it was really not possible and did not take action.
Then I started telling such people that these reasons are all excuses and that they should 'just' take action.
Result: they don't feel taken seriously, they think I'm a jerk and they didn't take action.
Nowadays I ask them one simple question: what are you afraid of?
Or a variation on it:
What stops you?
What pain do you want to avoid?
This question forces you to look within.
That's where the solution lies.
Like everyone else, I want a fantastic life, without the difficult choices that come with it.
– Lying in my hammock all day while the passive income rolls in.
– Be fit like an Olympian without training daily.
– Bringing wonderful children into the world without that difficult upbringing.
That life only exists on Instagram.
That life is fake.
As Ronny Coleman, the world's most successful bodybuilder ever said: “everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift heavy weights.”
And so it is.
With growth comes growth choices.
For growth choices you have to choose the difficult path.
Say NO to all those temptations and distractions in order to be able to say YES to what really matters.
There is SOMETHING standing between you and your future self.
What are you afraid of?
What choices do you have to make?
Choosing gives you a toothache.
Growing is uncomfortable.
You'll get your ass kicked.
You will doubt yourself.
You'll want to give up.
Get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
Come to love that process of growth.
Disappointed when something doesn't work out.
But pick up the thread again.
Continue building.
If you notice that things are going wrong, that Blue Monday applies to you.
Then realize one thing: you can always pick up the thread again.
You don't have to do it alone.
We are here for you.
When do we start?
Jeroen van den Nieuwelaar
Co-owner & Franchise master Enforce Belgium
jeroen@enforce.nl
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