“Out of Control”
“You cant….”
“You cant…” are the two most powerful words in the world for us. This rings true for both negative and positive actions. It’s all that it has taken for me time and time again to do the opposite and “DO IT.” A challenge. We are content and happy as long as we aren’t bored, as long as there is further to go, more hill to climb, places others or few have been. Parts of us can sit idle but most of our being has to be striving for a goal, pushing the limits and proving everyone and ourselves wrong.
Those words are it for us. They are the on switch, the final straw. I’ve seen it in myself and in others like me. Those simple words muttered at us by someone else, or even ourselves, is all it takes to set us in action.
If you didn’t read the first part of this series (click here to read that) I gave a rough overlay of being a strong willed, type A personality. What I call the “addictive, all or nothing personality” and that we can be both our best friend and our worst enemy.
In this second installment I am going to continue to pull from the long learning experience of my own life. My looking back at myself honestly and viewing the pinnacles Ive reached, hurdles I've overcome, as well as, and the topic of this installment, the falls Ive taken. The rock bottoms Ive hit, and why. What is it that caused the falls. Where are the some of the seemingly very fine lines we walk between great positive success, and success at huge personal cost?
ID some of the major ones for you, and show where, and how, people like us can be at one minute on top of the mountain due to our abilities, and the next sliding out of control. Sliding due to again our own ability. Our strong headed ability to put the blinders on our own mind, emotions, feelings, and physical well being in order to reach a goal we have set for ourselves, or to simply prove others wrong, or even just in spite of others : ).
‘Stress and Goals, our Ying and Yang”
And often though we live on these we allow them to get WAY out of balance. We have the ability to get out of control. Not so much the world around us getting out of control, as we are excellent at controlling our surroundings. Even micro managing it with relative ease, but our own selves getting out of control. We can lose hand of our own selves. Get so focused on a goal we snowball. Inner stress builds. As a trait we thrive on stress. We seek it, and it’s the fuel for the fire in our furnace, but it to can get out of hand. It’s a fine line between healthy and harmful levels. When we don’t have stress we tend to put more on our plates, shove more cola in the belly of the stove to the point of overload. Then Due to our strong will and ability to make things happen we can continue on. We don’t unload but we do what ever it takes, and that can cause serious bodily harm, or even death.
To reach extremes we go to extreme’s
And largely you MUST. I have said it and will continue to say it time and time again. I don’t care what you do if you aim to do something MORE then average your going to have to do two things accept some negatives, to go to extremes in anything other things will suffer by Alaskan King crab and all the finest appetizers and drinks at the same to. To be the best or even above average at anything you will have to let other things suffer, and you’ll have to go to extremes to reach extremes.
Where we differ is we go to EXTREMES!!!!!! and sustain those extremes for LONG periods of time. We use the American mentality to everything. If a nice big dose of something is good, then a BOAT load must be friggin awesome. Like training, Man look that guy broke the world record and he used this training program for this amount of weeks. If I take that same thing ramp it up a bit, tack on this and this and this and then also take that deload week out, extend it from 8 weeks to 16 and end at even higher volumes and intensities. MAN How friggin yoked will I be then SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!! DO IT, No quit, suck it up and get it DONE.
Same thing in reverse if a lot of something is Bad then, then to hell with that crap, NONE of its good. I’m never touching a carb again, they are PURE evil. If a person loads up on highly processed carbs for long periods of time as a basis of there diet Look, they are signing the death warrant. That means they are EVIL, and I shall never touch one again be it sugar, or apple or potato, NONE.
“False empowerment, or hatred”
Oh Boy but we do it. In our quest to reach goals and sites we have we tendency to slip off the ball and actually lose control when were not careful. We end up giving power to inanimate objects that don’t deserve it power. In our quest to control more of our surroundings we label them and give them the ability to be hated, rise emotion, and hell even fear. You see it all the time people doing this to a carb, a fat, a group of others with goals opposite of your. It’s a fault that can be slipped into and you must watch for. Others having cravings and whine and piss and moan about his or that. We have a tendency to make those same things a point of evil or disgust. We give them as much power over us in a negative controlling and limiting way as those who seem weak to us, but just in a different sense of the term.
I think that will cover it for this installment. All encompassing of the negative in which we must watch for, maybe not but it surely covers the largest categories and the one in which I know if you avoid you’ll be well on your way to new heights without the self inflicted pains as prior. I hope this strikes some good dialogue. I feel this can both be good for those with this personality.
Those who have experienced many of the same things or those who are at risk of it. As well informational for those who don’t have this trait of simply making anything they desire happen, and possibly showing that they to can learn these skills where we have to learn to harness them they selectively can adopt them
Until the next installment. Go kick those negative traits in the virtual junk , ID them and make something positive happen.
Originally Published on StaleyTraining.com
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