Will Power! I wonder what it really is and is there not enough to go around. It’s amusing to me how I can stop doing pain pills, smoking crack and sniffing glue all the same day, but when I try to apply that same inner strength to something else it usually doesn’t work. What I mean is that I can use my will-power to eliminate some nasty habits out of my life like that terrible meth habit I had for three days back last week. Then after I detox and get straight, with my new found strength and wisdom, I’ll go and try and alter other areas of my life. There’s always something in life we want to improve on especially when it comes to bettering ourselves.
I’ll find myself with renewed energy and stamina and ready to change everything bad in life. What’s very abnormal though is when I attempt to use that driving force energy to excel in another area of my life that same energy dwindles and fades as if there is a limited supply. This leads me to believe that will power is a limited source of energy and/or there is an energy blockage. I’m inquisitive if any one of my dear readers experience this same conundrum.
Seriously though it happens every time. I remember right after I quit shooting up heroin into my eyeball (try it, what a great way to hide track marks) I decided it was also a good time to take up teeth brushing. I was off the juice for at least three hours and really had the urge to pick up the tooth brush, but as soon as I did it was like BAM, all of a sudden the next thing you know I have the needle in my eye and shooting a mega-dose of the juice again. The teeth were nice and sparkly clean right before they all fell out!
All joking aside though, no heroin or meth or crack, but it does seem that there are limits to drawing power from will. Does that mean we are all weak in this area or is it just me? I’ve been doing really well with nutrition, taking vitamins and juicing and eating green foods, but whenever I want to do something like going to the gym its a no go. I want to go in the morning but who wants to stay up late like I do and then get up early? I hate early mornings, I mean like hatred with a passion. I plan on going at night and I know full-well that exercise will have to be a part of this lifestyle if I want to succeed. By night time, and I mean about 11, I get tired and something comes up and then I never go. I realize I have to and beat myself up over it, but I still don’t go.
Maybe I’m a bit hesitant to go because I realize, from past experiences, that if I do go to the gym, than my nutritious lifestyle will go to hell. I have a friend, Andrea Albright, who is amazing. You can find her at www.AmazingBodyNow.com for all you female readers and she offers a true unique experience for women to get fit. She’s been there, she was overweight and now she is gorgeous and fit and trim. To bad for me her site is geared towards helping women otherwise I’d be on that. It really is that good and as a guy if you can get over her continuous references to girlfriend and lady and woman then go for it. I’ve read every book there is practically on diet and exercise, most recently the Gabriel Method, which seems intriguing, without having that success switch triggered.
It’s amazing that I am on the path to acquire my first million dollars this year and yet something even more important like my health continue to eludes me. I’m fed up and enough is enough. I will figure this will of mine out and I will empower it. I’d like to get your feedback. Haha, comments appreciated, but like most other posts most don’t comment.
Hi Steve,
I am the lady that spoke with you on the phone today. Trust me I know how you feel regarding the exercise. Last year I started out walking a mile each day. When I got into my second month of walking I added another 2 miles and this time I started race walking. Today I am up to 8 miles per day 4 in the morning and 4 at night. I know walking doesnt sound like much but I have went from a size 18 to a 14 in womens clothing. I have lost FOUR inches in my thighs alone and 3 in my upper arms. My blood sugar and blood fat levels are MUCH better and I feel better about myself. Try to do this with a friend its alot more fun that way.I know how it is to struggle with weight loss. I am like you and I also eat healthy but my weight does NOT want to leave but its def shifting around. The thing is even if you do NOT loss weight you ARE building muscle which burns fat.I wish you much success just keep plugging away. You can do it. : )
Hey Steve,
You’re definitely not the only one suffering from unruly willpower.
I am constantly battling with myself in order to get things done. My way of getting round me and my resistance is to chop those things into bite size chunks. So for instance, I’m learning Polish right now. It’s a pain in the ass and pretty tricky but I’ve got to do it. I know that I hate studying it so I go to a local cafe (where there a usually some attractive women) and I have a coffee for 30-45 mins. During that half an hour, I rote-learn some Polish. Two or three coffees a week and I’ve attained a couple of hours a week, which will get me where I need to be.
Maybe for you, you could roll out of bed in the morning, tell yourself you are just going to walk to the shop or to the corner or somewhere pretty close. Tell yourself you are going straight back to bed and that you are not even going to wake up properly. You’re only going to do it once a fortnight even. Put on your sweat pants and your music and walk. Maybe when you’re out you’ll feel ok to walk to the next corner. And faster. And so it goes.
Ta ta for now.