accumulation...

      Power...full



I've been slacking off lately with my daily push up routine.  I don't do push ups on my head like this guy but I thought the picture was too cool not to use.  I do push ups the way Neil taught me.  I was in the routine of doing ten well formed, strength focused push ups in the morning and at night.  If I did no other exercise all day at least I knew that I'd be doing this.  It didn't feel like much but I was something in the name of fitness and discipline. 
A year ago Neil taught me a better way to do the push up.  I had been doing a lot of push ups for several years but didn't have the correct form... I dropped from 50 per set to 10.  I learned that it was better to do ten clean than 50 dirty (so to speak).   I continued to discipline myself morning and night until this last while when I just stopped.  Life got busy, I got tired, I felt frustrated, I just wanted to sleep.  Excuses, excuses, excuses.  Yet even knowing that I was creating excuses rather than results still wasn't enough to get me back on the floor.
Today when I was out walking I was pondering this situation in my life and a light bulb went off... it's not just ten push ups that I'm missing out on, but it's an accumulation of ten.  Ten per set, two sets per day, seven days per week, fifty two weeks per year....that's a possible 7280 push ups per year that I'm missing if I stay on this track.  It's not just one, it's the accumlation of one that makes the difference. 
When I got home I did my ten.  Tonight I'll do another ten.  Tomorrow I'll do another two sets... and so on and so on.  I need and want that discipline so I accumulate strength rather than deteriorate into excuses.

I'm working with a financial coach to help me do the same thing with my money.  A  year from now I want to look back on a year of wealth accumlation instead of a year of "where did it all go?!".   Connections ... physical push ups, financial bank accounts, results or excuses...my choice.  My Christmas gift to myself is an awakening to getting on track so I build powerful outcomes.  Maybe a year from now I will be able to do a push up standing on my head like Mr. Muscle...super cool!!

Happy Christmas wishes to everyone!!  May you have a year of awesome results rather than excuses!!