The Journey - Get Better

Math problem...

 

What is answer for 220 minus 180?

 

That's easy Brandon...40.

 

Give that pupil a gold star!  Now put "lb" at the end of each number...what is the answer?

 

Yikes!

 

That would be the correct answer...

 

That was the "disconnect" between what I saw in the mirror (and on the scale!) and what was still on my drivers license from 10 years ago...good thing I was never stopped for speeding...I didn't resemble my picture!

 

Natalie never made me feel bad about gaining weight (except the TD Jakes thing!).  Actually, I had lost the sting of that moment and had gotten back into my normal routine...I worked out...looked good in suits...ate horribly, but felt good...

 

Until Aruba...the beach...and the prospect of no shirt!

 

I passed a mirror at a local store and thought...who was that?

 

Yes, it was me!

 

Immediately after seeing myself in the mirror, I saw a magazine.  Natalie saw it too and said something I had not heard in a year...

 

"mmm!" 

 

This time it wasn't for me...it was for Shemar Moore - the goatee wearing hunk from soap operas and Criminal Minds.

 

Can I catch a break?

I had to admit...he looked good...and he is only a few years younger than me.  Once again, I was faced with the choices of Get Bitter...or Get Better!    This time, I made a decision...a real one.  To Get Better.  I secretly bought the magazine to get his "secrets"...an easy way to Get Better.    Turns out there is only one way...Do the Work!    The next day, I borrowed the car and went to a local park and did something I had not done in almost a decade...I ran.    The sweat was pouring from the heat and humidity...it burned my eyes and drenched my shirt.  That day, I ate better (all things considered - I'm still in Aruba!) and stepped on the scale the next morning...219.5    A step in the right direction!

Where is your disconnect?    Does your perceived daily effort in sales line up with your bank account?    Yea...it does (you will only get out what you actually put in...not what you think you put in!)    Do the work!    Does the production report line up with your real abilities and potential?    No...it doesn't (you are much better than the report shows!)    Do the work!    There is a process that will "connect the dots" of your perception and your results and it is outlined in the Evolution of Completion that we will review over the next several days.  It has taken 2 years, but I am now almost back to my freshman in college weight and I think I could give Shemar Moore a run for the money...don't you dare hit that "Reply" button!    I can hear the applause over the internet, but don't clap for me for who I tried to be...    Clap for me for who I used to be...    Now (physically anyway) I am closing in the best me I can possibly be...comparisons to anyone are no longer necessary.  That is what I want for you...    To be one of a kind. To be that extraordinarily exceptional version of you...for you to    Get Better...    Until tomorrow, I wish you Money, Power, Success!

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