Dear Yoga Student,
Have you seen the movie, “The Secret?”
I saw it. I loved it. I think I watched it three times. It made me feel really good about my life and my dreams and my aspirations…
… but you know what? It doesn’t work!
The ideas in the movie are amazing – positive thinking, setting your intention, creative visualization, abundance mindset – but that’s not enough.
Never has been. Never will be.
Everyday, I meet bright-eyed positive thinkers who never get anything done. I mean nothing. They can’t pay their rent, they show up late to class, they don’t go to the dentist… I could go on and on, but I’ll stop!
What the world needs is NOT more dreams. We need more action takers. More people who wake up in the morning when their alarm clock goes off (instead of hitting the snooze button 4 times). We need people who eat more broccoli and less T-bone steaks. People who are serious about creating radiant health and abundance in their lives…
… people who are NOT AFRAID to actually get off the couch and do something!
You can make “dream boards” or sit around “imagining” how you’d love your body and life to be all day long. It’s fun and uplifting, but ultimately pointless until you do something.
Let me tell you a story so you get this deep down under your skin.
My first bicycle was a hard rubber-tired Schwinn red & white tank that my dad fixed up for me. It was a collector’s item to be sure, but it was not a bike that any kid in 1984 wanted to be seen riding around on.
The one I wanted was a Predator BMX with black mag wheels and a blue steel frame. My family didn’t have much back then, but instead of sitting around staring at the picture of the bike in a magazine hoping some positive thinking fairies were going to take pity on me and give me the bike of my dreams, I forced the issue.
I mowed lawns. I did chores. I cleaned cars.
It took me 9 months, but I saved up $268 dollars and I bought the damn thing myself. For cash. That, my friend, is the real “Secret.”
Suck up your pride, strap on your boots, and get to work. You want something? Great, now take some massive action and get it!
Here’s why I’m telling you all this:
I’m a really flexible guy, but it’s not magic. I found a system that worked – yoga poses, diet, nutrition – and I followed that system until I got the results I wanted.
My old body was like that hard rubber-tired Schwinn. It was OK to look at, but I sure as hell wasn’t going to ride that thing around for the rest of my life.
Now, I got my BMX…
Stay bendy,
Lucas
YOGABODY Naturals LLC
Yoga Flexibility Kit
2 Comments
at 3:54 am - 12th August 2010 Permalink
Very inspiring article. Yeah that’s right if we really like to achieve something we should work hard for it and not just dream for it. My old friend told me this once “Some people dream of success, but others wake up and work hard for it”
at 12:15 pm - 9th September 2010 Permalink
You are right on the money with this article. The only way to get the life and body you want is to get up off the couch and get to work. Dreams and intentions are great but they are a waste of time unless you follow them up with real effort.
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