Do you want to fight?

Do you want to fight?

I do…!

No silly, not a real fight, I’m talking about with myself, a challenge.  A challenge that demands a “fight” with myself daily.  Something that I will have to fight to do everyday, something that I know that I will have to struggle to do, but when I'm done doing it, I will have a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.  Isn't that the way it always works, we have a choice to "do" or "not do", when we make a bad choice such as eating something we shouldn't, or not getting off the couch and getting to the gym or not making time for family or quitting something that is "hard" or whatever, we regret it later, but when we do something that we aren't too fond of doing and we fight thru the pain and suffering for that brief moment, and yes it generally is only a brief moment, we realize that it wasn't that bad.  Why do we give in to weakness by quitting something or not doing something we know we should do?  I don't know why, but I do know that afterwards I either feel good or I regret it.

As some of you know, I am a competitive person, highly competitive actually.  My dictionary actually has a missing page in the "L" section and it is replaced with a page from the "W" section.  Can someone let me know how to spell the word that starts with a "L' and ends in "ose" please.  Back to my fight, like you I'm sure, I surely do not want to get beaten up by myself!  That would make for a good story tho… “Hey Greg, how did you get that black eye?” “I got beat up by myself and I punched myself in the eye!”  I’m sure that person would then hand me a business card and say, “Here, you should call this guy, he helps people like you, he has a real nice comfortable couch you can lay on".

Over the last few years I have been doing “30 day challenges" and last year my challenge was to read 4 books a month for a year, this year it is no alcohol, and quite frankly, last year was easy as well as this year so far has been easy, so I’m looking for a tougher challenge.  Better judgement tells me not to do this, but I’m asking for your input and I’m leaving it up to you to tell me what my challenge should be!  In addition to the two challenges I just mentioned, I’ve completed challenges in the past like: no TV for a month; 10,000 steps/day for a month; no sugar for a month; write a book in 30 days; as well as several physical challenges; all completed with ease; so you have to make this hard for me.  I’m looking for something tough, very tough, even something as big as “no way he can ever can get this done” kind of hard.  I’ve already been presented with “ride a bicycle to work for 30 days” or “eat veggies everyday” or “100 pushups a day for a month” but those aren’t challenging enough,  I am thinking more like “ride a bicycle to Florida” or even something like "get home by 7pm 4 nights a week to hang with the kids" or something like that.

So what do you have for me????  Bring it on and let me know what you think I can’t do!

And sure, you can join me in this challenge if you want, if you are up to the challenge and if you want to win the “can I do it” game……

Maybe you don't want to bother sending me a challenge, maybe you want to do one yourself and keep it private, if so then GO FOR IT!  Maybe you don't want to do my challenge with me but you want me to help keep you accountable to yours?  I'm up for that too.

Let's make May 2013 National Challenge Month and challenge yourself to do something, anything at all and make yourself better everyday!

I'll challenge you to do that!  I challenge you to challenge yourself.

There’s a lot I learn about myself and others by doing these 30 day challenges.  Maybe you can lean a little about yourself too?  Just a thought…..

Yours in health and competion,
Greg