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[behardonyourself]

Brainwashed

Most people that spend any time with me will no doubt arrive at one specific conclusion: I am an intense person. Whatever has my focus has all of it. When I decide to do anything, that goal or objective gets all that I am. I don’t dip my toe in the water, I dive all the way in and completely submerge myself. I know no other way.

Last night, a close friend was asking me about a training and diet regimen and pretty quickly, all I started to pick up was the lack of commitment it called for: no more than 30 minutes per workout 3 times per week with weekends basically open to consume whatever. (A day before, she was intrigued by a 500 calorie per day diet that required 3 hours of cardio each day).

The look of on my face that said “Are you seriously asking me about this bullshit” must’ve resonated through the phone, because she quickly started defending her idea and telling me she isn’t looking to become an Ironman and that she isn’t “obsessed and brainwashed” like me.

Yeah, no shit.

I could go to the saying: “Obsessed” is a term that the lazy use to describe the dedicated, but I know my friend is anything but lazy. Honestly, the obsessed part is not what even caught my ear. Hell, I am obsesssed. I am obsessed with improving myself. I am obsessed with being a positive example. I am obsessed with seeing just what I am capable of. I don’t hide that.

“Obsesssed” is not an uncommon adjective that I hear people use to describe me.

But I am also not ashamed of being “brainwashed”.

I have brainwashed myself to the point of which I don’t fear failure. I embrace it.

Brainwashed myself to chase everything I want to accomplish.

To believe I can be someone that other people look at and think “if this crazy fucker can do THAT, I can too.”

To not give up.

That I can do any fucking thing that I decide to do.

That I can thrive on plants.

That I don’t require a drink when I come home. Or an entire bottle of Titos.

That I could do a triathlon.

That life’s trials and seemingly desperate situations were only training courses for me to become unbreakable.

I brainwashed myself to believe that I could go from being a fat, drunk, depressed, lazy fuck to an Ironman in 11 months after not engaging in any exercise for over 5 years - All while nursing my broken wife back to health, tending to an infant, and continuing to provide for my family as a whole.

And I did it.

I am brainwashed to believe that Iron-distance is just the tip of the iceberg of what my body is capable of. And that whatever physical mission I go on, real life’s hardships cannot break me or force me to deviate from my course.

The crazy shit is that I have a list of friends and strangers that have let me brainwash them into believing they can do crazy shit too.

Brainwashed to believe that the terrible hells that they are going through is happening to them BECAUSE THEY CAN handle it.

Brainwashed to respond to negative shit by not saying “Why me” but instead asking “Why the fuck NOT me?”

We are all capable of so much more than we know or believe.

And if you spend any amount of time with me, I will have you believing you can accomplish all kinds of insane shit - absolutely anything in this world that you focus on, no matter your perceived obstacles.

There is a lot of power of letting go of the thoughts where you tell yourself “I can’t” and replace that with “Fuck it, let’s do it”.

The worst case? You come out the other end a whole lot better than you are right now.

I don’t know that I am qualified to give advice on much, but I would implore you to ask yourself “If I could do anything in the world and knew that my success was 100% guaranteed, what would I do?”

Then I would do that shit, starting right now.

In the end, my friend conceded she was looking for a quick fix and that she knows consistency is her best option but biggest enemy. Owning that was huge progress - and recognizing these characteristics are what lead us down our own great paths.

We only get one run at this life - might as well make the most of it.

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