The Fight

• Brian Nunez
• 2/3/2012

What are you a Chicken? A Scardy Cat? Stop crying you baby!!!!  Thats exactly what life says to us all too often. Not in those words of course. Life is smart, it does it in a sneaky way.  It will say it when you haven’t eaten in hours and there happens to be a McDonalds near by, or gives you a flat tire on a day you can’t be late. It will be screaming kids, work overload, and lack of sleep when you need to be up early. Sometimes its really sly, its the cupcakes in the staff break room, a twelve pack in the fridge, or a buy one get one free at the bakery.   

Now early on in the year we are all excited about a new year and new you. New goals, and ways we are going to make a big change in our life. Year after year sometimes those goals remain the same, due to the fact that the bully of life has a different plan in store for us.  When we sit down early in the year and write down what we are going to accomplish we neglect the fact that the big bully is just waiting to catch us at our weakest and most vulnerable moments. We have written what I like to call the “Disneyland perfect picture” of how the year is going to be.  “Im going to lose 30lbs, run a 10k, eat healthy everyday”...and so on and so on.  However, we often forget to write down all of the main challenges that are going to present themselves throughout the year.  All of the ways that life is going to have its way and throw us off track.  I like to call these the “punches of life”. Life is going to throw you many many punches and they are all going to be when you least expect it.  Truth is, it doesn’t always play fair, you’ll get hit from the side, back, stomach, knees, and right in the nose if you let it.  Just as if you were in a real fight, in life, you gotta have a “Swing Back”.  I ask our athletes all the time, you know the challenges, the crazy schedule, kids, work, time, motivation, now what’s your Swing Back? 

If you aren’t prepared for all the punches that life is going to hit you with, then you are bound to get knocked out!  For some people, they realize how to fight at young age, for others they learn how to fight a lot later.  The best part about the fight is that it can be won or lost everyday.  We talk a lot about “winning the day”.  You can’t win the week, month, or year without winning the day first.  Each day is a new opportunity for you to take the fight to life.  That fight starts with one big thing, CHOICE.  We are all products of our habits and defined by one thing, CONSISTENCY.  Choice and consistency can be a match made in heave or damsel in distress.  We can either choose to be the bug or the windshield.  To be knocked out by life, or take action and control and dedicated to reaching our goals. 

Make a list of all the punches that life is going to throw at you this year when you are writing your goals.  Be specific and list every possible thing that could go wrong.  If your game plan is set, when those punches start flying by you’ll be ready with your swing back. Don’t be scared of the fight, go at it 100mph.  You owe it to yourself.  

As Al Davis said “Just Win Baby”...”Win the Day”-FNS