Bear sprayed myself…twice! Learn from your mistakes
The other day I was talking to one of my clients about making the same mistake twice and it reminded me of the story.
When I was in college, in the great state of Montana, I’d go to my aunts and I would hunt elk and deer. I know what a very Montana thing to do right?
Anyways she gave me the key so I could unlock the gates up in the mountains. On my way back down I noticed on the keychain there was this fancy lighter. When I went to turn on the lighter, cuz I was kind of bored it wouldn’t work.
It actually had a safety on it so that you couldn’t push it down. I thought that was really strange. What lighter needs a safety? Anyway I flipped the safety switch off, looked at it and push the button….And as you might have guessed, got sprayed in the face with BEAR PEPPER SPRAY.
I Almost died!
On my right was a stinking cliff, on my left was the side of hill. I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t see, snot was everywhere. So I just turned my truck to the left, into the side of the mountain. I then Opened my door and rolled around for the next 30 minutes or so.
So you might be thinking, “How did he make that mistake twice.” I will tell you.
Once I recovered, I got back in the truck and started driving it down the hill. I thought the worst was over. After all, I sprayed myself directly in the face, I should be good to go. But as time went on my eyes started to hurt more and more. I thought to myself, that’s not kept right, and my snot started to ooze, plus I started to have a hard time breathing. I was like what is this is a residual effect?
I stopped the truck and frantically looked for the stinking pepper spray bottle. Long story short, I found it underneath my chair every time I hit bump I was slowly pressing the trigger and every bump would release just a little bit more pepper spray. Basically, I was fumigating myself in my truck.
So that’s kind of a funny story but what does it have to do with you?
In short, you need to learn from your mistakes. Hopefully you learn from your mistakes better than I did :-). But, how many times do you go to an event and overeater? How many times do you go out to eat and instead of getting something that fits your plan you pig out instead? If you don’t have a plan the chances of you being successful and being able to use willpower alone go down exponentially.
If you truly want the leanest most fittest body, you need to do what the leanest fittest people in the world do. They log their food, meal prep, and workout. It is simple, not easy. It’s going to necessitate planning and sacrifice. You intuitively know this. No gimmick pill or “device” is going to magically make you leaner.
As I like to say, it’s simple, it’s just not easy.
If it were easy to be lean and fit everyone would be lean and fit. But the fact of the matter, that it’s not easy. That’s why over 68% of Americans are obese. Fried foods and Netflix are more important than whole foods and working out. I’m not saying you have to be a food Nazi or a gym rat, but you have to make a change and develop healthy habits.
In essence stop spraying yourself in the face with pepper spray like I did :-).
Go be awesome!
KELLEN LAKE – Good news, it didn’t happen three times.
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Step 1: Planning Your Destination
- Your long term body goal. What does your ultimate ideal body look like? Can you think of an athlete, actor, etc, that has the type of body you want?
- Your three-month goal. What is your body weight and body composition goal for 3 months from now? (This is your “focus-priority” goal and the one you’ll also put on a goal card and carry with you at all times, reading it as often as possible).
- Your one-month goal. What is your monthly body weight and body composition goal? What are your cardio and resistance training goals for the four-week period? How many times are you going to train?
- Weekly goals. What is your weekly body weight and body composition goal? What will be your official weigh-in and body-fat-testing day every week? How will you measure?
- Daily goals. What are the most important behaviors you must develop into habits and repeat every day to reach all your fitness and body composition goals?
