No Excuses!

Earlier today I was literally seconds away from quitting when I really didn’t need to and God showed up and put me right in my place! So, today I was scheduled to go see my trainer at 7:30pm. I woke up this morning with stomach cramps and I just felt like it was gonna be one of those “blah” type of days. I was determined that I was going to reschedule my session as soon as I got to work, but I didn’t do it. As I was leaving I remembered that I hadn’t reached out to my trainer to let her know that I wanted to reschedule so I said that I would do it from the car. I was tired, my energy level was at zero and I still didn’t feel well. I started composing the message to my trainer and got distracted. By this point you would think that I would’ve gotten the hint that it wasn’t meant for me to cancel, but nope! I drove almost all the way home feeling bad about potentially cancelling so late in the day and trying to figure out where else I could fit it into my schedule before the end of the week. I stopped at Wawa on my way in and before I got out of the car I started typing the rest of the message to my trainer. I was two words and a period from hitting the send button when the text message below came through.

I started laughing hysterically! I was like “Ok, God! I hear you!!!!” As you can see I quickly responded and said “Yes ma’am!” I deleted the entire paragraph that I had typed to my trainer and replaced it with “Hey, my friend wants to come train with me again tonight!”

You see I started this journey to better myself, but I also did it in hopes that I would inspire someone along the way.  The moment my friend showed interest in training with me after watching my training video I setup the time and day to make it happen asap. Our first session together was definitely challenging, but we rocked that workout last week and she was ready for more! I have to remind myself that you must know the extent of the things that you ask for when you ask for them. Sometimes what we ask for seems so simple, but there’s so much work that needs to be put into it and we don’t even realize it at the time. I asked God to help me inspire others along the way and today he gave me a gentle reminder that sometimes that means pushing yourself and putting in work whether you feel like it or not! Life doesn’t stop because of some pain or feeling uncomfortable. It’s easy to get up and get moving when nothing is wrong, nothing hurts and you have lots of energy. The true challenge is how you handle that same scenario with a few obstacles in the way.

I almost gave up today and it was so unnecessary! After I confirmed our training time I went home and went straight into Mommy/Wife mode. I got everything done that I needed to get done and I raced out of the house to our training session. I’m really glad that we went because it was definitely an awesome workout!

Today’s lesson: “Be more powerful than your strongest excuse.”

I can make excuses when things get challenging or I can make improvements and push through the obstacles that I face. I choose the latter.

~Mrs. Accountabilitee