By Michaelson Williams, TSX, author of I’m Core Fit, Success In One Day For The Rest of Your Life, The Ultimate Fitness Tips, Expert Guide To Fitness, The Legacy Wife, and more…
This article is sponsored by: g/warriors
“Physical strength comes from a place where doubt is overwritten by mental fortitude and a will to Always Do More.”
“Rate my pushups” isn’t a personal journey of mine or a means to have people follow some goal that I’ve set for myself to share with the world. I simply love doing pushups—well, really all types of exercises that have to do with maintaining my fitness and testing my mind. My pushups aren’t the best when I look at them in video, because I remember what they used to look like before all the broken bones. I’ve had more than my share over my lifetime—over 50, some on repeat.. However, I never judge my performance from a mindset that I’ve been broken—actually, it almost never crosses my mind. Pain isn’t pain if it’s been with you all of your life—it’s a friend.
Your mindset controls your life, but only if it is coupled with the knowledge that you are greater than the physical, which we all are. I don’t believe in the idea of “death”. As my body ages and I get closer to my spirit energy moving out into the everything, I think about what kind of legacy I will leave behind. What will people remember me by once I’ve moved on? Will people remember me at all? These are the ideas that I contemplate almost daily. Don’t get me wrong—I am not focused on death in the sense that my light will be snuffed out, but more like my energy becoming even more expansive.
Like, for example: this writing and these ideas are coming from a place of what I believe is higher-mind, as it was spurred on by fasting, waking at 3:33 AM, and a timed 33-minute, 33-second meditation. When and if I wake from sleep at 3:33, I never let the sign or opportunity go wasted. So I set my stopwatch on my phone and sit upright in my bed with my legs crossed, close my eyes again, and with three deep, long-held breaths, go into deep meditation. I don’t understand why more people don’t meditate or at least talk about it—it’s so refreshing and “mind’s-eye” opening.
But I digress…
