Do you ever feel embarrassed about how much you've let yourself slip?
I want to share some bits and pieces of a conversation I had with a fellow busy dad just a few days back.
I want to share this with you because the key message of this could drastically have an impact on your life should you be in the same situation as this DAD.
For Joe (not his real name), he's never been more embarrassed about how badly out of shape he's allowed himself to get.
At just 36 years young, Joe is now 45 lbs overweight, never has energy for much of anything outside of work, and he hates the man he sees in the mirror.
What's made Joe so embarrassed is the fact that he used to play baseball in the MLB.
For 8 years Joe played for a couple of different teams and was a STUD.
You don't make it into the MLB by mistake.
Either way, since Joe finished his career and was done playing about 2 years back, things drastically transformed.
He stopped working out.
He no longer eats very well.
He hardly ever has any sort of motivation to be active.
Even when it comes to going outside with his two boys, it's a struggle for Joe to muster up the drive to do so.
He knows a LOT of it has to do with the weight he's put on.
His body has changed since his playing days.
Muscle has gone away and been replaced with flabby fat.
His arms used to fill his sleeve and now, not so much.
Joe used to be excited to go to the beach and the pool but now, he's become the dad who KEEPS HIS SHIRT ON.
This is where Joe told me he was EMBARRASSED about how much he's let himself go.
Knowing what he has once looked like years ago as a professional athlete to now was hard to deal with.
Joe's been letting that embarrassment hold him back from taking the action he knows he needs to take to get back on top.
It's nothing but a STORY inside of Joe's head.
And maybe it's a story that YOU have going on inside your own head??
So you let yourself go??
WHO CARES!
Do what you gotta do to get back on top!
Don't let the fact that you slipped up and fell off track DEFINE YOU.
If used to be a STUD...rise up and become the man again.
The honest TRUTH is this...
NOTHING is holding you back other than YOUR DAMN SELF.
Once you can 'man up' with this, that's when you'll make a big change.
Until then, you'll always be "too busy", "too out of shape", "too embarrassed"...
Good thing is, Joe's decided to finally stand up to that 'story' and he's going to get back his edge.
I'm looking forward to his transformation.
And if you're in a similar position as Joe, I look forward to YOUR transformation.
You just gotta be ready and willing to rise up against the BS STORY you have running through your head.
PS - If you're an EX-ATHLETE DAD and you're ready to lose the extra 20-30+ lbs so you can get back to looking and feeling great, but also so you can STOP FEELING EMBARRASSED, let's step up and make some changes.
No harm in admitting your slip-ups and shortcomings...
It's more so about OWNING UP to them and doing what needs to be done to FIX THEM.
