April 3 - Agility in These Foolish Things

The days seem to fly by lately.

Today’s read was about agility. You know how the older you get the less flexible you are? Unless you practice stretching both mentally and physically, you become stiff and set in your ways.

I’m trying hard to remain flexible. Agile. Okay with change. But man, is it sometimes hard and painful.

In the literal sense, I’m on Day 38 of my second go with 75 Hard (started on Jan 1, failed, then started again on Feb 26). Every morning I do my workout and have a good stretch afterward. At the beginning of the year, I couldn’t even sit cross-legged or get up from the floor without a piece of furniture for support.

There was a blurb in the book that I’m reading about a study done in older people. The findings were that once you can’t get yourself up off the floor your life expectancy is less than five years!

I’m getting stronger and more flexible every day, but being on a program for 75+ days and then stopping is simply not an option for me. I’ve set goals in the past and once I reached them, I stopped “doing the work” because I met my goal. I’ve hit a lot of mini-goals already in this program, but the idea is to keep upping the bar and keep going and improving.

Someone wrote a comment in a recent entry I wrote about the overuse of the word “journey” …and even though it might be overused, it’s a great descriptor because there really is no end to this if I want to remain flexible/agile.

There are so many things to see and accomplish on this trip!

And yes, the chapter I read was more about remaining open to change with things from a business perspective, but I’m reading this as an all-encompassing lesson. Plus, I’m sooooo burnt out on thinking about work stuff right now. That’s always a thing and always something I have to remain flexible with since times are so different now post-pandemic.

But I’m feeling the itch to get back out there and date some more and I need to be a lot more agile with that too. Dating’s changed so much over the years and so have the characters. I have to get myself into a mental place where I’m not so annoyed with the whole thing.

Here’s something funny: I’m one pound away from the weight that I’ve always felt was my optimal “dating weight”. I used to call it my Fully Fuckable weight, hahah! You know that feeling when you’re naked and you look in the mirror and go, “Okay now! I don’t mind getting naked in front of someone new!”

That will be me very, very SOON!

But I gotta stick with the plan and keep upping my goals and striving for more and more agility and flexibility.

Time to work out and streeeeetchhhhhh.

Love you!
GS