Weightlessness
July 30, 2008
Well, well, well, good gravy. I should really check my visitor stats more often because the number of hits I got last week went up by about 65,000 percent due to a link on ZenHabits and some stumbleupon action. I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t the foggiest idea what stumbleupon is. I mean, I kind of understand it, but I don’t really know how so many people found this site through it last week. I like the fact that more people are checking out this site, and I appreciate any links people want to send my way, but I really have the self-promotion instincts of a piano bench. I think there are sites I’m supposed to send my site out to to get additional readers but I just don’t have that enzyme in my brain. I’ve had other blogs and I like watching them grow without too much of my own interference. That’s bad business sense, I know, but as of now this site is an avocation that I wrote pretty much for myself the first few weeks. When some company comes and sponsors me, then I’ll start eyeing the stats more keenly (I’m looking at you, Sonic Drive-In. Come on, let’s make this happen! Not that you guys would ever know Sonic was sponsoring me. It wouldn’t affect the content here.)
I’ve been a little lax with my posting here becuase I’ve been finishing up another project recently and this site had to take a back seat. But now I’ve freed up my schedule and I’ll have a lot more time for this site which I’m excited about because I have a lot of ideas for things I want to write.
Did you know yesterday was the 50th anniversary of NASA? I find space travel fascinating and just wish I had been alive in its infancy. I can’t imagine anything more exciting. I love the Kennedy speech when he proposed the challenge of going to the moon. There’s an ethos behind that speech that I think is good to embrace if you’re trying to lose weight (or do much of anything for that matter). It sets up a reverse Catch 22 (a Throw 22? a Catch -22?) in your mind. Reverse Catch 22s are good because instead of being damned if you do and damned if you don’t, you’re swell if you do and not too shabby if you don’t. The mindset that I’m talking about is that it’s good to do hard things. In fact, it may be worthwhile to do a thing because it’s hard.
Kennedy said that we choose to go to the moon not because it’s easy but because it’s hard.
I love that kind of thinking.
Is losing weight easy or hard for you? For me, sometimes it’s easy and sometimes it’s hard. When it’s easy I think, “Good. This is easy.” And when it’s hard I think, “Good. This is hard. What worthwhile isn’t?”
If it’s easy for you — lucky you. If it’s hard — luck you. Because, to paraphrase Kennedy, you should choose to lose weight not because it is easy but because it is hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of your abilities and skills. Because that challenge is one you are willing to accept, one you are unwilling to postpone, and one which you intend to win.
There. Now, I’m going to go grab a bite to eat. I wish there was somewhere I could get a Chicken Club Toaster Sandwich, fried macaroni and cheese bites and a fried ice-cream blast without leaving the comfort of my automobile. Who knows, maybe such a magical place does exist. (Aw yeah. Cha-ching!)
