Why Failure Should be an Option

So you failed at losing 10 lbs before the end of the month, now what? So you failed at getting those six pack abs before spring break vacation, now what? So you failed at losing the jelly like creature living on the back of your arm, now what?

I want you to ask yourself something right now if any of these or any like them apply to you.

Did you fail, or have just not succeeded yet!?

I love this principle so I’m going to break it down a bit. Its time for you to assess whether you should even consider something with your body or weight a failure. Changing and molding our bodies takes time as its only a natural progression that usually works best so putting time constraints on ourselves is being a bit unfair to ourselves to begin with.

Especially for those of you who have absolutely no idea what your doing (no offense), putting a time constraint on yourself to gain X amount lbs of muscle, or lose X amount of fat may not be the right time yet. Don’t get me wrong setting goals is important, but maybe not when your fresh out at the starting point and are just learning the ropes (with anything really, first time on a snowboard you going down deaths peak or the bunny hill, point made).

Look the only reason I bring this up is because I’ve seen so many people do this so many times in my life so its gotten a bit annoying. Especially when they don’t really know what it takes to get there. I do, and that’s probably why it bothers me the most.

Another point here is that you should go back and analyze the failure in detail. Going along with my first point, maybe you didn’t give yourself enough time to begin with. You never want to rush either weight loss or muscle toning ventures.

Something unusual did occur to me last week. I saw an old friend at a party and sure enough the topic of exercise came up. Of course I could talk about exercising until everyone in the room wished they didn’t know what exercise was, but I just listened for a change (and for once).

I learned something just by listening to someone else and what they do for exercise and what actually is currently working for them. These fitness interactive video games are all the craze these days.

Personally I wouldn’t recommend them although they are funner than any amusement park (I hate long sweaty lines). What he was doing was aerobics during the game and with padded weights harnessed to himself.

Also, just by playing regular video games and standing while moving around with these weights really was working too. To me it seems like a bit of multi-tasking which could get annoying. And I’m someone who is known for their multi-tasking skills.

Don’t you see? What might not work for one of you might work for your neighbor, and maybe work miracles for the person down the street.

Maybe trying something like this that is a bit out of the box isn’t such a bad idea is it? I mean trying something completely left field. I would have never thought anything like this could really work for someone having real results. But he told me it helped him lose weight and tone up parts of the body.

I always thought if your going to focus on one thing like exercise, then that should be the end of it. Mixing leisurely things with exercise would have never crossed my mind in a million years unless someone else brought it to my attention.

Sure enough, here I am now telling you about it.

I guess the moral of the story is when assessing what went wrong with a failure in the exercise or weight loss departments, look at 2 new things.

The first, were you really being fair to yourself with the time map you originally set for yourself. Maybe go online and do some digging on how long it took others to lose 10 lbs first.

And secondly, maybe your approach or method just wasn’t for you. I know 101 ways to lose weight or tone a body.

But guess what? I’m sure there are another 101 ways out there for both weight loss and body toning still to be discovered for me. I know I learned one last week.

Maybe the failure was just something you needed. Sometimes people snap inside after failing countless times and gear themselves for only success for the rest of there lives. And often times this is the case for so many.