Failures

One time I would say that I failed this semester would be my goal of going to the gym consistently. I tried multiple times to get it into a consistent basis. I used to go the local apartment gym at cabana beach 3x a week. However, as the semester picked up, that started to slowly fade away. One of the primary reasons is because I am a huge procrastinator which takes away from my gym time because I’m up doing assignments last minute. I tried to change that by going with my brothers to be able to keep me accountable. It worked for about two weeks but then as they became busy, they altered their schedules to go in the middle of the day, when I was busy. As a result, I stopped having that accountability and started making excuses. Then I found another person to go with. However, after the first day of working out, I had muscle tenderness and soreness and needed to take a few days off to recover because I overworked myself. As a result, it’s been about a month and a half since I been to the gym.

One thing that I learned from this was that I tend to make a lot of excuses.  Moreover, procrastination can affect me in more than one ways.  As a result of procrastination, I wasn’t able to work out, attend a few socials, and lose out on time.  Not only that, I highly do recommend setting a schedule and having a partner to hold you accountable if you are not as disciplined as myself. It does really help as well as, allows you to learn something new.

I can honestly say that failure is a learning mechanism and is one of the biggest teachers in life. If you allow it, and go back and reflect on your failures, you can learn so much about yourself in general and not only pertaining to the situation.  Moreover, everything is about timing, so the reason you may have failed is simply because it wasn’t your time or the timing is off. After my failings, I realized that for me going to the gym is harder for me to work out than playing sports and working outside. As a result, I was able to sign up and attend the boot camp classes that are offered here which has a time as well as meet new people to help me maintain that accountability. I would say that this class has prepared me to take better calculated risks so that my “failures” don’t seem like failures at all but rather learning opportunities.