As written to my beautiful Margarita Parlionas,
Ever notice how sometimes, two separate events can kinda sync up in your head and merge into one thought or help you come to one realization?
Well, here’s what happened to me today,
1) Intellectually intrigued by this post being motivating enough for you to put up on your timeline, AND make an emotionally expressive comment on, it lingered in my thoughts.
Then
2) Inspired by the unexpected positive and encouraging response I got from the Facebook post I put up after my workout in the gym this morning, I went back to the gym to work out for a second time in one day this evening (as you’ve known me to do from time to time) .
While at the gym working out for the second time today, I realized there’s something I do, that speaks of the man I am , as Steve Harvey speaks of something that talks about the man he is, that you responded very favorably to in this speech he gives publicly in front of his wife.
When at the gym and starting my workout, I religiously start off looking in the mirror with the weights in my hand , and say TO MYSELF,
to that SELF I am looking at in the mirror — “Kiss My Ass” —
and I start pumping that iron.
What I am doing is basically letting my better self out to dominate the moment
and letting that stronger willed, higher self take command of the event and tell my weaker self , the one that would be inclined to not work out, give up and say, “not today, I’ll work out tomorrow” and go home after one set.
SO I start off every workout with my higher self looking at my self in the mirror and saying to my weaker self “Kiss My Ass” and I start working out.
Then when It feels like that motivation is starting to deplete, I think about someone who is either getting in my way or doing wrong by me in some way, and I direct my speech at him and say “Kiss My Fucking Ass” and I pump that weight harder, higher and faster.
Then when that energy starts to deplete, if I am “single” I keep myself going and pushing by thinking about the most beautiful and desirable woman I have within my reach and I say to myself “Common Buddy, You can have her, you can make her yours, she is YOURS”
and I give that weight another killer, animal, beastial, king of the jungle push,
and crunch out another pain inflicting set.
Or, if I am in love with someone and in a relationship, I go to something my father passed on to me in a beautiful father to son moment, to motivate me to push and pump even more.
My father said: (and you can bear witness to this having heard me say it to you)
“You know who you want to be, you want to be that man, that fills your girl with pride to be with you and to be yours , and that gives her the joy she’ll feel when all of her friends, single or married, look at you as the man they’d like their man to be more like.
You want to be the man all the woman wish their man was more like
and admire your girl more for having. That’s a good goal to set for yourself” 😉
My dad was a cool dude 🙂
and you’ve heard me say that goal and desire to be that, for you.
So, Steve Harvey said what he said, which I also authentically resonate with,
though I just hope he doesn’t say it at the Academy Awards and do it to Chris Rock on stage in front of everyone . 😃 LOL
and, now you know (as loves I’ve had before you have also come to witness)
what I’m saying and thinking when I’m in love and in a relationship
and going to the gym for you, sometimes , twice a day