I used to sing this song all the time, but I am just starting to understand what it means. I can think of cliche after cliche that echoes this same message, I just never got it. "Just do it!" "Get ya mind right!" "Don't overthink it" and the list could go on and on...but everything about this whole concept defies my superly overly analytical Virgo nature. Why wouldn't I want to overthink it? What else is there to do with it? "Just do it?" Surely, you can't be serious.
However, when I was struggling terribly last week in our BABs PT, Dre said "Get outta your head, Robin" and it all started to come together. I never really believed in "a-ha" moments, until I had one. "Get outta your head, Robin" ..."Get outta your head, Robin"... Hmmm....
As I've started to turn my thinking cap off more, I've found that I can accomplish more. It's all mental...finally that means something to me.
I am the first to tell you all about me, I know just about everything about myself. Things that are static, and just are. For instance, I'm not a night owl, I'm not good at math, I am not a runner. Another thing, I can't do pushups, if God had wanted me to do pushups he would have given me stronger arms and a smaller ass. But I am finding everyday that if I stop thinking about what I am not and what I can not do, that realistically I can do anything! Wow! What a concept!
We put our own limitations on ourselves by thinking about what we can't do (and think of how pissed off we become when someone else tells us we are incapable of doing something).
Truth of the matter is, nine times out of ten, if we think we can do something, we probably can. Dre said last night that "consequences bring results". That is true. But for me, moreso than the consequences, it is the self-speak to just keep telling myself "I can do this", "I got this", "Only ## more"...and I find that I have completed the exercise!! Then, I am looking at myself in disbelief.
My mind wants to tell me that I'm in WAY over my head with BABs, because it is soooo very hard. But my instincts tell me I can do this. My solution is to turn off my "over-thinking" cap and to GET OUT OF MY OWN WAY and ACCEPT that I CAN DO THIS!!
By the way Dre...I'm a BAB not a FAB!! :-)
Robin
1 comment:
Alright, alright. Prove it to me. You have 2 weeks. Lets get it. And you CAN do it. I would not have let you in the BABS if I did not think so. The gym is calling you.
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