WEAR DILIGENCE LIKE A WELL TAILORED SUIT

I've written a lot about, goals, training, healthy eating, taking care of yourself when not working out, being different, hormones, gender specific training among many other things{Refer to previous articles- www.deliberatefitness.blogspot.co.ke}, but none of that matter if diligence is not part of the success equation.

Execution is important, but how do you execute...... diligently.

Diligence is when you pay very close attention to whatever you are doing, doing it with care & persistence.

If you know me or have trained with me before, you know I fuss a lot about the little things. {Fingers/toes pointing forward, back straight, hips low} That's because I'm a sucker for diligence;taking your time to do even the smallest things well.

Get, practice & perfect diligence and success for whichever goal is guaranteed.

If success is as simple as Diligence, how come it still eludes as many people as are in pursuit of it?? Simply because you have to overcome the greatest obstacle ever.... YOUR OWN MIND.

Took me a long time & battle with the mind to master this Chinup, but eventually i got it.

   

-> The mind is the one that tells you to dream & fantasize about your dream body, and you end up doing more of dreaming than the actual working towards that dream body.

-> The mind will give you a false sense of time, " Where you keep telling yourself I have time to train later, or tomorrow or go to Sigiria Karura 'next' Monday.

-> The mind will convince you that any sign of failure means you're not cut out for it and that you should give up, and start on a quest to find something easier, something that you're cut out for.

-> The mind focuses on the worst parts of everything causing you to procrastinate; 'What if I don't like it, what if I don't lose weight, there'll be traffic as usual, it looks like it will rain?'

-> The mind makes you focus on irrelevant mindless work, in an effort to stay 'busy', to answer once & for all why that morning jog(Not a Sprint or a hill/staircase run) is very common. And why treadmills for hours on end have people(read ladies) and the weights are not touched. Yet these people don't report any changes or results.

The Solutions are easy but its your mind YOU REALLY HAVE TO CONVINCE, by starting small & doing everything diligently; Deliberately paying close attention to everything you do. Do actual hard Work instead of just keeping busy, Start today or now, you don't have all year/day, Focus on what could go right, what if they say yes, what if it happens sooner than is expected and Finally fail but get up, keep failing until you get it.

So how do we know you have diligence? The same way we can tell a mango tree from an avocado tree, its fruits.Wear it like a well tailored suit so that we can notice it from a far, produce visible fruits of what you've been doing.

Cheers!