After the end of the year, we have another one here. 2024. Prior to the very end of every year, many of us make resolutions for the next one. I will finally lose my weight, I’ll stop eating after six PM, I’ll stop smoking, I’ll reduce drinking, I’ll start to go to the gym, exercise, run, I’ll be buying my love flowers every Wednesday. This year will be different.
The thoughts are flowing through our heads very intensely, how much I’ll do for it and what steps I must take to reach the goal; some doubts are emerging somewhere behind. Some doubts as acid poured over the ideas about doing sports, losing weight, no smoking, which slowly but surely undermine and dig holes to our resolutions. Will I make it? Am I able to do it? I’d tried the last year too… For how long?
Like with a magic scraper, we wipe the acid out and buy a permanent pass to the gym, we’re searching on Google how to start with running, which diet grants the greatest weight loss. However, there’s a condition: I’ll start but I don’t want to suffer, or just a little bit. I don’t want to throw up comfort I’ve been building for so many years.
Nevermind, we must start step by step. That’s why we choose a gym, buy trainers, and set out to adventure. The adventure, which is close to our mind, but far away on the time axis; indeed, it was one year ago when, in the first week of January, we found ourselves in a gym full of people. Standing alone in front of our houses, wearing trainers in the winter feeling that this wasn’t a good idea. The acid is poured over our ideas again, the doubts prevent us from relaxing and starting.
We start and the feelings are gone, there’s nothing left but us with our idea to do sports. The first steps hurt, but the enthusiasm as a result of performance prevails over pain and uncertainty we go through. Endorphins are released, they’re holding us, flooding our entire body and mind, and we feel that we did well. Yet a few photos on the social media to confirm our decision was good. Few likes, kudos, and comments from our friends boost us even higher. Yeah, that’s perfect.
Tomorrow again. It’s worth it, indeed. The acid disappeared, vaporised, and does not come back when we’re going to do sports again. However, another acid appears, the lactic one. But this one doesn’t go away, the entire body hurts. Perhaps it would be wiser to wait, regenerate, professionals regenerate after their performance too. We’ll wait for tomorrow and we’ll feel better. We’re waiting, the other day it’s even worse, our bodies hurt even more, we can hardly move. We start a hundred percent regeneration. We don’t move, we’re lying, moaning with pain, and waiting for the moment it’s all over. This is not what we expected and our enthusiasm for putting our shoes on and start our run or exercises is moving away. Lactic acid is replaced by the (brain) acid which burns up our resolution, determination, and desire.
What’s the reason? It’s the same every year, we’re thinking why the power that had, at the beginning, kept us running, doing exercises, eating less food, is suddenly away. It doesn’t last. In the new year, it’s gone as quickly as it’s emerged in the old one. Emptiness again. I get back into the groove where I feel fine and safely, and I don’t care. Until the end of the year is here and everything starts again.
It won’t come automatically, we won’t be suddenly patient enough to do exercises, to keep our diet, to stop smoking. We must bust a gut. The best training is when we don’t feel like doing it. We don’t feel like doing our exercises, putting our trainers on, that’s when we move ahead. There’s nothing to do exercises, running, sports, follow the principles we’ve set after the New Year’s Eve, when we have the power; there’s something to do it when have no power. We then block the acid preventing us from doing our stuff. Preventing us from making ourselves better people. Based on repeating things, I build routine and discipline, based on repeating things, I don’t think whether I feel like doing it or not, I simply go and period. Despite the rain, snow, feeling bad, I simply go. Based on repeating things, we’ve built routine, repeating will come with the discipline and motivation I have to find inside of me and adhere to.
Every year is the same, it has its end and its beginning, our calendar is set alike, but our mind can be set to our calendar. A calendar that will be the same at the beginning of the year, in March, and also in October. It’s in us and about us, let’s have no fear to use the tools for sticking to our goals, desires, and dreams. I wish you a lot of strength and motivation in 2025.
