Drowning standing up

A call to action has a profound effect on each and everyone of us. It's that key decision to do something about the way you perceive a situation. Everyone has something they would like to change about themselves. We make different goals and decide at the beginning of a new year. We decide to set our sights higher this year. Halfway into the year, it begins to seem to us that we are not going to achieve a quarter of the goals we set out to achieve.

Methinks it's time to stop the madness. What is the problem here? Where are we missing it. We do want to get better at goal setting and we don't want to sound defeating but we seem to be drowning standing up and the waves are basically carrying us with them. I can see you nodding you head because you just pictured yourself going through the same situation in your life. The worst part of it is that we end up going through this whole vicious cycle every bloody year. I say it again the madness has to stop.

It's very tiring having to do the same thing and expect different results.  I heard it was known as madness. I think there is more sense in talking to A chair. I might just stop now and go do that for a bit.

My plan is quite simple, i actually do not like self help books a lot. I will get one that makes a lot of sense but they can be boring. The part none tells you is that changing any aspect of your life is handiwork. A bad habit is one of the most difficult things to break. I can write stories about habits i have tried to break without any success.

So i decided a while back to stop the madness. There has to be a better way to live fulfilled. That's the entirety of my premise. Tired of threading water. The beauty of life is that we can actually 'eat, pray, sleep'.

It's time to try something new, time to live life to the fullest. There are a lot of things about myself i would like to change so i am going to just go ahead and do that.

Inside each and everyone of us, we know what the problem areas.

Yes we can.

Can you hear the bell?

Always seems like when you are down and out, you get to hear the bell. This means that you get a chance to go back to your corner and come out hitting everything that stands in your way. Might be time to drop the boxing analogy but i guess it's the best(ok, maybe not the best but i am writing this) way of explaining how i feel right.

Ding,ding...that's the sound of the bell and it couldn't have come any sooner. Looked across the ring and 'Life' has a smirk on his face. Death is nowhere around so thats a good sign. A sign that its not over, not even by a long shot. I stagger across to my corner. My legs wobble like jello, my head is nowhere on my neck. My whole body aches like crazy... But i'm still breathing.

My left eye seems half shut, i can hardly see through the other one. Something tells me this next round has to be the one i come out swinging. I can't turn back now. Come too far to even contemplate that. I hear people talking to me. "Stick and move", "you re letting him get the better of you", "don't let him get you in a corner"; I don't even bother to respond, there's no point. They won't understand.

They won't understand. It's all or nothing here. I have nowhere else to go. This is it. Go hard or go home.

Funny thing about life, ha...ha. None comes out alive.

I hear the sound of the bell. Ding,ding...and i smile. I look across the ring into those eyes and he understands...at least somebody now understands.