Reaching For a Goal

I can't do a push up. There. I said it. I simply can not place my hands slightly outside my shoulders, while up on my toes, and lower then raise my body weight. I try. I can't. I can do "girl push-ups" but I never mastered the real thing. This week I decided to do something about it. 

How do you reach a goal? How do you overcome a challenge? 

At the most foundational level, you set the goal. 

In my case, I felt it was important to state the goal out loud. First up I told the one person I was the most hesitant to tell - Mr. Push Up himself - my military man. He does push ups FOR HIS JOB. What would he think? I was afraid he'd judge me or laugh at me. But I did it. I told him how I have been modifying the push up segments of my T25 workouts and how I would really like to build up my ability to actually do a real push up. 

Then you make a plan.

He didn't laugh. He didn't judge. He went into his super cute "I can fix this" mode. We did a few demonstrations together and he told me he'd help me. 

Next, get to work.

Friday night we went down to our gym and we worked on it. He showed me some build up movements I can start doing to improve my strength and confidence. And we did some basic dumb bell reps and resistance band movements to start the process. My shoulders and arms can feel it today - which matches nicely with my sore legs from my Lower Focus and Total Body routines from yesterday. 

He empowered me. He showed me what to do and I will incorporate it into my routine. I will stick to it and reach my goal.

I thought it was important to tell my son about this goal as well so tonight I talked with him about my goal, my plan and my steps to get to the goal. I hope it will be a lesson he will recall someday as he chooses to put in into action in his own life.

What goal would you like to reach?