Establish your why for doing Crossfit. For doing the warm-ups without waiting for your coach telling you to. For lifting that barbell many many times even as your body defies you. For running three rounds of 400 meter runs even as your mental toughness or whatever is left of it betrays you. For incurring lashes just to get your double-unders right. Even as your breath is stripped down to the visceral level of a gasp.
Ask yourself why. Why you're working your ass off 8 hours a day, 6 days a week for an insufferable boss. Ask yourself why you're persevering in a thankless job that only takes you away from your family. Ask yourself why you are feeding your body junk. Ask yourself why you consider a doughnut a worthy treat for all your hard work. (It's not.) Ask yourself why despite countless betrayals in life, work, love, you still carry on. Ask yourself why even when life throws a sucker punch and you are left gasping for air, you still manage to catch your breath and start all over again.
Ask why.
When the answers come, don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid when the day turns to dusk, when storm clouds gather in your mind or in real life as answers often come during these times.
Don't be afraid when you have nobody beside you but yourself, lying in bed, awake until the wee hours of the night.
Don't be afraid to ask the hard questions, establish the hard truths. Your truth.
"Sometimes your scars have a lot less to do with where you've been and a lot more to do with where you're going." - R.M. Drake
So where are you going with all this? What is your why? What is your truth?
Our two boys have autism. The world they will have to face when I am no longer around is uncertain at the very least.
I do Crossfit so I can be healthier, stronger, sharper in mind and body to better care for my boys. For a very long time.
This is why I endure. This is why I persevere.
This,
is my why.
What's yours?
Ask yourself why. Find your truth. Your truth will lead you home.
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