May 10
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The Oven Gloves Are Off!
The Oven Gloves Are Off.
Fighting talk, I know. You may not be used to this kind of language from a woman, but I’m not pulling any punches!
My honoured coach and mentor, Alex Jeffreys, struck a cord in me recently when he said, “It’s not how big the dog is in the fight – it’s how big the fight is within the dog.”
Now I’m not calling myself any uncharitable names, and I hope you aren’t either. But this really made me think about just how much I really want the things I say I really want, and just how hard I’m willing to fight to get them.
Alex made me think about what I need to do to get myself fit for the supreme contest I am heading for. He made me even more aware of the rigourous training I will need to do: the time I will need to spend researching the greats and the ones who fall short, of the commitment I will need to make to learn, understand, emulate and master the skills necessary in the achievement of my ultimate goal.
His words challenged me not to fear pitting myself against sparring partners, testing my abilities against theirs. He reconfirmed in me my belief that if I have aligned myself to a wise and seasoned coach who can advise me right, who will push me further, who can encourage and chasten me day by day, week by week, to work harder, faster, sharper, stealthier – one day soon I will be stronger, fitter, better, tougher. One day soon I will be ready.
But I’m not thinking literally inside the Box[ing Ring] here. Didn’t I tell you what this fighting allegory is really all about? No? Sorry, I’m new to all this blogging stuff and guess I got a bit carried away.
Well, what I’m actually referring to is my own rags to riches story from the kitchen to the parlour, from the parlour to the palace. I’m talking about fighting my way out of the terraced house and into the beach house. I’m talking about competing to win in the Game of Life. And I’m MAKING IT MY BUSINESS TO WIN.
Yup, I know, it sounds dramatic, melodramatic even - but I’m telling you, I’ve had a revelation.
Internet business is going to work for me. Marketing online is going to make it happen in my life. I’m in training to be a prize fighter. Forget Goggle-Eyed Guru – I’m talking Heavyweight Champion of the Internet World! I’m talking sucker punch to poverty, and uppercut to prosperity. That’s what I’m talking about. And that’s what I’m going to continue talking about in more detail on this blog telling Janet Chandler’s True Housewife’s Story, here on Jaycee Online!
And you’re welcome to a ringside seat if you want one. I’m in training now for my big day of victory, and I really do mean business this time - online business. You’re even welcome to be one of my sparring partners if you want – if you’re up for it!
But there is a twist to all this, and it’s a painful one. I am struggling with something, I’ve got to admit, and it’s difficult for me to face this in all honesty, but I think it is a very important key to my ultimate success.
In the first warm-up session, Alex made me write out a pledge to myself of things I would do to get myself ship shape, how to prepare myself consistently and tirelessly, mentally and physically to progress steadily toward my big day…my day in the ring, fighting to become a winner, an overcomer, to take the title and be crowned the next Heavyweight Internet Champion of the World!
Now this pledge I made wasn’t the furniture polish variety which you can just wax on and wax off (older UK housewives know what I’m talking about)- no. This pledge I recently made is not slick, it has been made to stick. I wrote it out and stuck it on the front of my daily journal, and as instructed by my coach, I read it to myself every day before I start to do any work.
And so here’s the thing I’m struggling with, and it is bothering me: I am already a heavyweight – but not in a good way!
I’ve got a good 50-60 pounds to lose, and I don’t mean from buying another use less ful guru magic trick to make fantastic fortunes appear out of thin air -( it’s a fake, it’s not real! Finally, I can see through those squeezepage smokescreens).
Anyway, this one item on my pledge is something I feel I need to go public with if I am going to hold myself accountable and build myself up to really make it happen.
On my pledge I could only bear writing it down like this: “Walk or exercise for at least one hour every day.” But in reality it is should read like this: ”Lose at least one pound every week for at least 60 weeks.” I mean, I’ve never been a Victoria Beckham, but I need to shift some bulk or change my game to Japanese wrestling, and I don’t really want to do that.
So the oven gloves really are off and I’m looking to change my weight divisions in a counter-twist way: I want my online weight to go up and up – from flyweight to Heavywieght, whilst at the same time I want my offline weight to go down and down from overweight to – just right.
Game on.
