I am exactly seven minutes into creating my first ever blog and already I find myself at a loss of words. It is not strange to me, a self proclaimed bonafide writer, to be experiencing this sudden onset of "writer's block." You see write's block happens to us all, even to those of us who choose not to write down our words or thoughts or even our make believe actions. When we are at the desk and we just skate through our work day in a cloud of malaise or if we are athletes and we decide to skip our final set of ab roll outs, we are all experiencing a certain writer's block moment.
As cheesy as it sounds, I've come to realize that my life is like a book. I am my own author. With every day, with every action, and with every thought my life's manuscript is being created. However, their are those days where we are faced with challenges that prevent us from adding pages to that manuscript. A common symptom of writer's block is complacency. Complacency will flat out ruin any type of progress and it will fog many of my chapters... hell, it will just be boring for you yawning outside readers. Put simply, if you have goals and you want to be successful as an athlete or a person than you should strive for continual improvement. Look within yourself and realize that familiarity with the everyday norm will undoubtedly halt progress. If you're content-- fine, but don't question why you haven't made any noticeable gains to bridge the gap from where you currently are to where you want to be.
The goal of this blog will be to inform, to challenge, and to inspire both my readers and admittedly myself to become better people, better athletes, and better thinkers on a daily basis...to always move forward in an effort to improve. You can expect at least one of three things from each and every post. 1. A summary of my day's workout 2. Words and thoughts that come from my heart 3. An inability to keep things brief.
With that being said, I would like to end with a thought by the great Thomas Edison, "We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present."
Thanks and God Bless,
Giff
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Complacency is the enemy of us all. If we are content to be the status quo in our family, jobs or athletic training, we will never grow and experience true joy. Matt, I have seen you train and mentor others in athletics. You inspire all of us to be better athletes, but most of all, better people. Keep up the good work. Ron
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