When life hits you…dropkick it.

Sometimes life…well let’s face it, sometimes life isn’t nice.  It has a way of sucker-punching us, of kicking us when we are down, and what’s worse….no one cares.

But we have huge opportunity during these times.  Not just to kick some serious butt in the gym and with our fitness goals, but to become stronger mentally, more secure in ourselves.  It’s been a rough last week and weekend.  Some punches that life has thrown along with getting sick and not being able to shake a fever.  It sucks trying to eat nasty smoothies, and eat a ton of food, when you are running a fever and feel like burying yourself in covers all weekend.

In all honesty I did take the weekend off from the gym, but kept up my diet.  Today was a struggle.  Do I hit the gym?  Do I use feeling like garbage as an excuse?   I went.  I couldn’t give a 100%,but did the best I could.  And that holds true in life.

Now I’m not saying if you are sick don’t rest.  You don’t want to push your body past a breaking point and really hurt yourself.  I’ve been at this long enough to know what I can do and what I can’t.  So use your judgement.  If you need to rest, rest.

But life is always going to have something unexpected it hits us with.  We think oh next week for sure I’ll be able to start this or that.  And then next week comes and we are hit with heavier work loads, the kids need extra attention, or whatever it is.

There will never ever be a perfect opportunity.  There will never be a time when everything just magically falls in place and you will have the perfect schedule.  You have to work, you have to fight back, you have to grab life by the back of the neck and throw it to the ground sometimes.

You’ve got this.