Remember Martin? He literally went crazy!
When is the last time you did something crazy? Like, really crazy, enough that when you told your friends they looked at you with the turned head look that your dog gives you. For many of us, it’s been a while. Yet at some point in life, most of us were pretty fearless. I watch my 4 year old using my living room as a jungle gym, jumping off the arm of the couch and onto the floor into a perfect tuck and roll. Or busting out into an impromptu bear crawl in the middle of Target. If you want a great workout, just follow a 4 year old around a playground for 30 minutes. You will be sufficiently worn out! So what happens to our sense of adventure when we get older? Is it the sitting in a classroom for 13-17 years in a row? Is it the fear of injury because we know our head can’t take a bump the way a small child’s can? Or is it trepidation holding us back because we’re just not sure we’re capable anymore? In all aspects of life, too many of us allow fear to keep us from doing the things we truly want to do. Those nail on the chalkboard words “I can’t” come out faster than an insulin spike in Paula Deen’s bloodstream. Often times the best thing we can do is just get out of our own way, and let it happen.
There are boxes that we jump on in the gym. It’s possibly the biggest fear I see in training. Clients that I KNOW are fully capable of jumping on top of the box just can’t get past the fear to do it. It’s that little voice of doubt, the cautious adult we’ve grown into, the fear of failure holding us back. But the only true failure in life is failing to try in the first place.
So what crazy thing do YOU want to do? And what is holding you back from doing it? It may not be something you can go out and do today or tomorrow, but take a moment, write down a CRAZY goal, and make a plan to get there!
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