I was just making notes on this magnificent book called ‘As A Man Thinketh’ by James Allen. It’s incredible… but one element stood out more than the rest:
Victories attained by right thought can only be maintained by watchfulness. Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.
Victory is only a victory when it can be sustained. Victories don’t just happen – they take time, effort, and need to be maintained over the long term.
I think James Allen also talked about how change cannot be maintained without a change of thought pattern… that behaviour is resultant from thoughts. Our minds dictate who we are and what we do. And we choose – to an arguable extent – what we think about. So it’s all under our own control.
What I’m trying to get at here, is the fact that this gym experience isn’t over when it’s over. It only starts… or I should say – it starts afresh when it stops. A new experience begins – one that’s not as fun as gaining the victory, but just as important, if not more so.