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Getting What You Want Is Remarkably Easy – But There’s a Huge Catch
Occasionally you will be whipped.
I started working out with resistance bands. I don’t have to drive all the way to the gym and I can start small…little victories.
Today I had the bands in the door. I was doing rows.
The anchor slipped out of the door frame, and like a giant slingshot, it flung itself into my chest. Perfectly symbolically, it left a big red cross over my heart.
I sprawled across the floor, moaning and clutching my chest — and almost immediately laughing at myself.
I was tempted to say, “That’s enough for today.” But there was another voice in my head telling me to keep going.
I knew that I had to put the bands back in the door, make it more secure, and keep working out.
There’s just no way I was letting that one mistake get in the way of what I want.
Despite being whipped across my chest, I am still going to work out with an “open heart.”
Yes, I learned my lesson. That same mistake won’t happen again. But something new could go always wrong.
I am willing to take that risk.
