WEAKNESS

 I was asked this morning how does one know that I am taking the the steps to make the changes that I said I would..... this is how...hits it right on the head.

Weakness

 

Do I have a weakness?  I am nothing but weakness.  I am not naturally strong, or fast, or flexible.  I am certainly not the smartest person in the world.

I get emotional over stupid things.  I eat the wrong foods. I don't sleep enough. I procrastinate and I waste time.  I care too much about meaningless things and not enough about important things.  My ego is to big. My mind is to small, trapped inside itself.

Not all that being said, I have a saying: A person's strength is often their biggest weakness.  But, their weakness can become strengths. Me? I am weak, in all those ways, I am weak.

But

I don't accept that.

I don't accept that I am what I am and that "that" is what I am doomed to be.  NO!  I do not accept that.  I am fighting.  I am always fighting.  I am struggling and I am scraping and kicking and clawing at those weaknesses- to change them.  To stop them.  Some days I win.  But some days I don't.  But each and every day: I get back up and I move forward.  With my fist clenched.  Towards the battle.  Towards the struggle.  And I fight with everything I've got.:  To overcome those weaknesses and those shortfalls and those flaws as I strive to be just a little bit better today than I was yesterday......

---JOCKO