One of the (many) things in this life that unduly aggravates me is having to postpone doing something that I know I need to do. Once I’ve committed to getting something accomplished, every delay incurred just drives me insane. One particular manifestation of this is exercising: When I miss a workout it bothers me way more than it probably should.
Case in point: Today, I was unable to lift weights in the morning or attend a jiu jitsu class in the evening because I hurt my elbow being a tough guy in jiu jitsu yesterday. Although it was only a single class and a single lifting session missed, it made me feel like I had missed weeks of training.
Why? Because as far as I’m concerned, tomorrow is irrelevant. Yesterday is old news. The only thing that matters, the only thing you can be judged by is today, and if you did nothing of note today, you are nothing1.
Like the man says, “every moment I sit here, I get weaker; every moment Charlie squats in the bush, he gets stronger”.
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“Hit the bricks pal!”, etc. Imagine a young Alec Baldwin screaming this bit at you. ↩
