Day 17 & 18 - Priorities

Here I lay in my bed, the lights are on but nobody's home.  Jen's soft voice slowly registers, "are you going to get up? or am I going to have to snooze my alarm".   As I lay there, I am having a very serious debate with myself.   If I get up now, and go do CrossFit again then I'll be able to get to work early and get off early.  Why was I getting off early?  That fact escapes me,  so I think of another scenario.  I could fall back asleep and get up in two or three more hours, since it's 4:30 a.m., and then go to work and leave on time.  Hrm,  that is a real tough one, oh wait, then I can do CrossFit at 5 or 6 tonight.  Yeah, that sounds good.  Awh crap, I knew there was a reason I needed to get off early.  I can't do CrossFit at 5 or 6, because I have to be in Orange County by 6:30 pm to meet up with a colleague.   We'll that screws up that plan,  okay, okay,  I'm getting up..

Yesterday, I barely moved a muscle all day long,  I didn't get up.  I called into work sick.  My boss is literally the coolest person in the world, besides me, and I am comfortable telling him that I killed myself doing CrossFit and I'm not feeling like I can make it into work.   And like the awesome boss he is, he laughed at my expense, made fun of me a bit and then said get some rest and see you tomorrow.  Now while this was okay with him,  it's not okay.  I convinced myself that I needed to rest because I couldn't get out of bed.  While the rest was nice,  no really it was amazingly nice,  it really wasn't the right thing to do.  Actually yesterday afternoon when I was feeling a bit better I looked up muscle recovery online and it turns out I did, literally, the worst possible thing I could do for my body in this situation.  I should have been active, and moving my muscles to avoid scar tissue build up.  Lots of stretching, and if I had gone to work and just toughed it out, then I would have healed a lot faster and felt a lot better.   Lesson learned.

The bigger lesson is priorities,  this morning I was reminded of this because I have a lot of things on my plate.  My priorities influenced my decision to get out of bed and and get CrossFit in before my day started, because I kinda have a dousey of a day.   I was reminded laying there, that CrossFit is a priority in my life, and that is why I am making time for it.  I'm sacrificing for what I feel needs to be a priority.  My fitness and health has become a priority in my life, and this helped my decision making process.  I used to make that same excuse over and over again.  "I don't have time ...",  but that excuse doesn't really mean I don't have time to do something, it means this action or task is not a priority to me and I have better things to do with my time, like sit on the cough, eating potato chips and watching my favorite show The Flash.  

So now that I have that sorted out, I kind of feel better that I got off my pair of butt cheeks and made it this morning to CrossFit for Day 2.  It's also made me think, that maybe there are some other things in my life that I need to make more a priority as well so I'll mull that over during my workout.

Today's Goal.

Today's goal is to get a grip on my priorities, and get through CrossFit today.  I really need to suck it up because I'm hurting pretty bad, and just about everywhere.  But I can do it,  No pain, no gain right?  

Today's Progress.

We'll I'm going to keep this part a bit short, since I'm writing this during office hours.  But I wanted to share with you, how wonderful it felt to just show up to CrossFit at 5:30 a.m. and show that it was a priority for me.  Was it hard,  hell yeah it was.  Again it totally kicked my butt!  But I'll spare you the details since I"m a bit short on time.

Now, I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  I'm a pretty religious guy.  I'm a believer.  I pray before I eat, and I used to go to church every Sunday.  Yep, I'm sure you caught that.  I "used to" go to church.  I have been pulling the same, I don't have time excuse every Sunday and since I've had a moment of clarity today I've realized that I just have not been making God a priority in my life.  So that needs to change.  I also have some work stuff that I need to re-prioritize as well,  and all this had come to me while sweat was pouring out of me like a water fountain.  

So today, I got a little exercise in, I did some soul searching and I realized that priorities are what is most important in my life right now.  Not bad for a day's work, and I still have a whole day to go!