Thursday, November 8, 2012

The End of the Trainers and my vulnerable little shoot

So I had a special with my Trainers that now is ending.  I planned on having a six week push to get me off my ass and into exercising.  What I have discovered is that there are two sides to my brain.  There is one part that wants junk food and to spend time doing shit that I enjoy and that doesn't involve heavy breathing and discomfort.  Then there is the enlightened side that wants the best of health and wellness.  This part is the weaker part for the better part of 40 years.  She is so under cultivated that she is like a fragile new shoot at risk of being trampled growing right next to this hulking gnarled behemoth tree of bad habits and "fark it I am going to die anyway sort of thinking"

So my trainers will be going and I am left with that little shoot and my hulking gnarled tree.   it is almost like the trainers have been this protective cage around my little shoot and now the cage is being taken away and I am left to take care of it myself.   Did I mention that I have vegetable garden ADD?  Right so what will be the new plan.  How do I keep the momentum going and the little sprout of wellness growing.....I know....just farking do it.   There is a thought.

Make a plan and just do it.  Go Nike, you wise marketing gurus you.

The next goal post I have is a Santa Run....Whole bunch of slightly nutters will get dressed up in Santa suits and run around the Harbour....slightly strange fun.....count me in.  Here is my plan for training.  I am going to do something that makes me sweaty Monday - Friday....then I am going to sit on my bum Saturday and Sunday unless I feel like doing something.

Now speaking of doing something fun on the weekends.....Lookie where I am going this weekend
http://www.spraypoint.co.nz/

Here is what I posted about it on Facebook:
About 5 years ago a beautiful woman named LeeAnne Duncan asked to write a story about my blueberry farming family for New Zealand Life and Leisure....when the photographer Tessa Chrisp came to shoot the story I watched her like a hawk and w
hen it was all done I knew that what she was doing is what I wanted to be doing for a living too....I kept telling the editor that I would one day shoot for her...she inwardly laughed at first (quietly, and patiently told me that they only hire the best photographers in New Zealand that a blueberry farmer as keen as she may be will not quite cut the mustard) I just smiled and asked her what she would recommend I do and she steered me towards NZIPP. Four years later I called the art director back and said "Right...I have achieved Master of Photography twice over through NZIPP and they have me as National Photography Judge....wanna give me a crack now?) So this weekend LeeAnne and I are off to the south island and she will be writing and I will be shooting. How freaking cool is that.





Now here is what I figure.  If I could set my mind to achieving this then why can I not use the same powers of focus to reshape my body?  And bring me to a healthier state?  Many more adventures I would like to be doing....The guy Roland who owns this farm goes way out into the bush and works with endangered species the stuff he has seen is amazing and I want to be able to hike to the places he goes to do a more in depth shoot of it.   Need to train more for that so.......just do it.   

1 comment:

  1. That's a great story Mandi, about going to the South Island - you'll love it and know you will get some amazing images.

    On the workout front - I also find it incredibly hard to self-motivate. I find that I do much better with scheduled things, then I feel obligated to go. Is there any way you could keep going to the personal trainer you already have, maybe doubling the time in between appointments? So you know you'll have someone checking up on you at regular intervals making sure you do stuff?

    If you can focus and train yourself on a regular basis, good on you, I still haven't mastered the art of self discipline enough to do that yet! People say if you want something badly enough you'll do whatever it takes to get it. So go for it lady!

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