Dreams into Goals
I often like to say that there is nothing in my life that I regret. I have made many mistakes threw out my life but I like to maintain that if I had not maid said mistakes I would not have been able to learn from them and a much more ignorant person would be typing here now. This has been tested recently with the fact that I am trying desperately to get out of the Coast Guard early. Even as such I still believe that I don’t regret signing for six years as opposed to four, many things would have turned out differently and many of those things could have been much worse.
That being said however I regret not making my dreams into goals earlier in life.
When I was a child I lived in my imagination, residing in my own head as easily as I walked on the earth. As such I dreamed of many things, of flying, of dancing, singing, fighting and gymnastics… but I couldn’t even touch my toes… and I never stretched as I was instructed too when I was young. As such I can barely reach my shins now and still find sitting at a ninety degree angle painful. I regret the fact that I didn’t do the stretches assigned to me when I was young, I regret not having run more as a young adult, and I regret not having taken my health and fitness seriously.
Now, at 24 years old, I am working to make my dreams come true by making them into goals. I am attempting to stretch every day (and have made some improvement,) and also working out so as to build enough muscle to be able to carry my own weight in order to attempt some minor gymnastics training. I am doing what I have started to call “up’s”; Push-ups, Sit-ups, and Pull-ups. Though I can’t do a single real pull-up as yet, I have decided to hang as best I can until I build the strength to do a pull-up. Also my push-ups have degraded into kneeling pushups again but in time I hope to return to “male push-ups”.
The hope that is in time I can walk on my hands, balance on beams, lift my own weight over a tall wall, perform back and front flips, and many other things that I have always imagined myself capable of doing.
Today’s Workout:
Pull-ups: 15sec
Push-ups: 20 (on knees)
Sit-ups: 25