4. It’s How You Play the Game

I just got back from the gym a bit ago. It wasn’t exactly a spirited workout today. Some days you have it and some days you don’t and that’s just the way it goes. It doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it and it doesn’t mean I wasn’t as strong today, sometimes you’re just not at 100%. Regardless, tomorrow is a new day and I’ll go back and do it again, hopefully with a bit more zeal. In order to be fit, I’ve got to keep going to the gym on the good days and the bad days. It’s not like you get to a certain number of workouts and then make it to fitness. Once you’re fit, you’ve got to keep going, or you lose your fitness. My goal isn’t to get strong, my goal is to be strong. You can get strong in a relatively short period of time, but in order to be strong over the course of a lifetime, the work can never stop, even if you’re not at 100%.

In case you’re new here, I usually use fitness analogies because it’s a big part of my life and because it’s the perfect metaphor for so many topics. To continue, imagine an indefinite workout plan with the sole goal of getting stronger.

• Week 1: 100 pounds

• Week 2: 105 pounds

• Week 3: 110 pounds

• Week 4: 115 pounds

• Week 79: 495 pounds

• Week 80: 500 pounds

One can only follow this plan for so long. At some point, the effort it takes to continue to add 5 pounds would be life consuming and eventually, it would be impossible. At some point, the plan has to change because it’s not sustainable. You can do it for a while, but every plan of this nature is finite. What I want to bring to your attention is the importance of plans that are infinite.