Taking up the challenge

In the quest to have a flatter tummy with beautiful abs, I started doing sit-ups. Today will make it three days since I began, and I’m in serious pain 😣. To my amazing friends that always want to slap me when I say my tummy is big, cos’ you think it's flat enough and I’m proud, I know your hands are twitching but chill jor 😂. For those of you that have tried to do sit-ups at one point or the other in your life, I’m sure you know it’s not easy. Unless you’ve been doing it for a long time and your stomach muscles are really familiar friends with this exercise. You’re lucky. I know it took time to get to that point but it seems like a whole damn lot of time. After each session, I stand by the mirror in my room, expecting to see some form of muscle tightening somewhere, but nothing. All I see is my "supposed" big tummy.

Most times we want to achieve something important to us but we’re not ready to pay the price. It’s not as if we don’t know that there is a price to pay, it’s just that the path to paying that price is not so rosy and we readily give up. Last night, when I was doing sit-ups, I kept chanting “pain is temporary, result is final”. You can imagine how much that worked to keep me going. It's one thing to chant mantras, it's a whole different ball game to actually do it. I only did like 5 more after I started the chant, and then I gave up. I was just laughing at myself because I was like “abegi, my tummy isn’t even big. Why am I killing myself? But na me talk say I want abs”. It’s very funny and sad at the same time that we’re conscious of what we want and what to do to get there, and still, nothing.

 

How do we get past our commitment issues and actually commit? It’s important in our daily lives; work, relationship, health etc. Only through commitment do we get to achieve the desires we want, I keep repeating this mantra. So, I’m going to continue with the workout to get those defined abs that I want and I hope you continue with what you have to be committed to doing too. Take up the challenge!

PS: Let me know your methods to combat your commitment issues if you have one.