THE AWAKENING CALL: Climb Up The Mountain

What are your mountains today?

The fact is that we all have mountains - different mountains with different sizes in every aspect in our lives.

They could be mountains in work that are blocking us from growth, or money mountains, they could be spiritual mountains with our faith and what we believe, or family mountains or even our actual home that we live in; the walls that are around us. They can be intellectual mountains that block us from our personal growth, or social mountains such as not enough or too much social time with friends, too much social media time, and last but not least your health and fitness mountain.

They are all very important, but the priorities differ from one person to another based on personal goals. This forms a daily wheel, a cycle that we repeat everyday.

The question is “WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT ALL OF THESE MOUNTAINS?”

Are you sitting passive, watching everything falling apart?

Or....

Are you pursuing optimal health - body, mind, and spirit?

Are you living most of your life sucked up in a the valley, surrounded with all of these mountains, or are you climbing up your mountains?

This is an awakening call, to move your butt off the couch and climb up YOUR mountains.

Because I promise you the view is BEAUTIFUL, and you can’t see the view unless you climb up your mountain.

As a husband I have to climb up my mountain to give my wife love and security, time, respect and honor, because she blooms when I do that.

As a father I have to climb up my mountain to give my boys time, provide for them, and to be present as a father who is kind and loving, and to raise them as Godly children.

As a follower of Christ, I want to be Godly everyday, and to bless and pray for others to experience God’s love, because this is my calling.

As a coach, I want to give my work time, I want to give my client the best quality service, in fact I want to provide the best service with the best quality of work.

I want to spent my money wisely.

I want to be a better athlete everyday.

I want to be able to grow intellectually everyday… and so on.

These are all mountains in my life, that I have to climb everyday so that I can see the beautiful view.

But the truth is, climbing up the mountain is a journey. It’s hard, tough, sometimes lonely, frustrating to the extent of making you feel like it’s an endless climb, and I promise that you will FAIL. You want to hear another promise? You will FALL sometimes and feel like you aren’t making any progress.

These mountains aren’t smooth, they are not a stairway up. They are rough, crooked, and slippery, and don’t even start me on the weather factor!

But I promise you once you climb it up, you will see the most BEAUTIFUL view.

Instead of living in the valley under the mountain, where you can’t even see the sun, you will be above your mountain and see the full picture.

You will be able to live as conqueror, and your feet will be trained and learn how to climb any other mountain in life.

AWAKE, and live as a CONQUERER of your own life, not conquered.

So, here are 5 steps of my experience as a health and fitness coach, nutritionist, athlete, and as a husband and father of 3 awesome boys. These are steps that I learned from my coaches and when I applied them they changed my days.

#1 PRIORITIZE

Prioritize from 1 to 8 what are the most important things to you in this wheel (family, work, money, home, faith, social, personal development, health and fitness). This wheel is everything that happens in your day, so make sure you take time to think about what you want to make it on the top of the list and what’s going to be on the bottom of your list. Don’t worry you're still going to do what’s on the bottom of your list.

#2 MANAGE YOUR TIME

My coach taught me that there is a trade between money and time. With spending time we can make money, but with money you can't buy time, at the same time money is important to buy everything else. So time is so valuable. We can make more money if we value our time.

Where do you spend your time the most?

How do you spend it?

Manage your time based on your 1-8 priorities.

#3 PLAN AHEAD

A PLAN is an essential action in our days and without it everything becomes loose and too flexible. Without a plan we become unproductive. Plan ahead for your day, plan your meals, plan for your job, plan for your time, plan your workouts. Did you ever step into the gym without a planned workout? Well I did! I am telling you it's awful, I just keep going in circles wondering what to do, and I get out feeling so unproductive.

Have you ever not planned your meals? Well you don't have to answer it because we know the answer is yes, because I did! That's when you go way too far off the track and eat too much of the wrong things.

So, plan everything in your day.

#4 BE DISCIPLINED

Discipline starts by doing the small things in your day.

My wife once watched this video that she had told me about. It was an honoring speech from a Navy Seal Admiral McRaven, saying "self-discipline starts by making your bed once you get up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzLzbd-zT4

He said "If you do your bed every morning, it will leave you with a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another, and another. By the end of the day that one small task completed it will return in a big task completed."

Everything in your day is a task.

Be disciplined to plan your day.

Stick to the plan.

Finish your tasks.

#5 BE CONSISTENT

Consistency basically means repetition.

It's the endurance of being disciplined everyday without giving up.

Consistency and discipline are like railway track. They are parallel to each other, and never separate.

I am talking about the healthy habits that you have created by following the first 4 steps: prioritizing, managing your time, planning, and discipline.

Here is an example - every morning I have to wake my boys up and take them to school. This doesn't change depending on how I feel, this is a must. Then I go to do my personal training sessions at the set times, again this doesn't change depending on the day. This is my plan and I am going to stick to it to show commitment and efficiency. Then I do my workout, I give a 2-2.5 hours time cap depending on the type of WOD I am doing, and each piece in the WOD is with a time cap. I do the same with my programming and computer work, I plan it ahead and stick to the plan.

With doing that I get to have time with my family in the evening without feeling stressed.

And don't get me wrong, and I am not the superhero that does it all perfectly everyday. As I mentioned earlier, the journey to climb up the mountain is tough, and crooked. I fall, and I fail almost everyday, but I know it's part of the journey, and I am gonna keep going up, because when I do the view gets better everyday.

I hope you found this blog helpful.

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