The New Year has arrived and I have decided to forgo a New Year’s Resolution. Instead, I will continue my focus on the long game. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am going to work on bettering myself and adjusting my plan of attack. This year, though, I am not going to set a specific goal or goal line to cross. Plus, I have already set a pretty lofty finish line already. Best shape of my life by fifty years old. So maybe I am just a hypocrite when I don’t set a New Year’s Resolution. I am the captain of my vessel, I call the shots. And if I want to act all coy and cheeky about New Year’s Resolutions, so be it!
This morning I woke up and wanted to do nothing but watch football and relax. But I also wanted to get to work. Work on me. I grabbed my keys, my headphones, and headed to the gym. I completed a full body workout in forty minutes. Then, I was off to Perspire Sauna for forty more minutes of sweat. Which one was more difficult? The sauna. At the gym I am moving, pushing, and straining against the weights. In the sauna, I am alone, with nothing but a bench and my thoughts. It is surprising how hard it is to simply stay in one spot for a long period of time. With that spot also being 140 degrees. It makes you think crazy things. Like, how did it take me so long to begin this journey? This is my body, my mind, that I have let fall behind. Not even falling behind, I ventured far from the path long ago. And this is now my journey. Not to find the path I was once on, but to create a new one of my choosing. I thought about that a lot in the heat, as sweat dripped from my body. Then the timer went off, my session was over for the day. I walked out of the sauna, grabbed a healthy protein smoothie at the shop next door, and went home. A New Year maybe, but the same focus as before.
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