10 Life Lessons The Insanity Workouts Taught Me
1. Nothing is impossible – it’s only a question of time.
1. Nothing is impossible – it’s only a question of time.
When you flip open a magazine and get an eyeful of the perfect models and actors that grace our TV screens, you’re no longer hit with an instant inferiority complex.
It’s critical to find and maintain balance. It’s so easy to turn into an insomniac and destroy your health and peace of mind in the process – but that’s where you have to draw a line. It’s alright if you don’t get everything. Nobody’s perfect.
Stepping out of your comfort zone doesn’t necessarily mean you have to do something new, different and spontaneous every day, it does also mean not living a monotonous life, where everything you do has been charted out in advance.
If you’re a flame, I’m a raindrop
If you’re a dove, I’m a gull
If you’re a storm-breaker, I’m a rainmaker.
Too often we’re reminded not to take people for granted but not enough that the same holds true for our own skills and abilities. We assume that the things we know and can do today will remain permanently, so we forget to put in the maintenance work and to be grateful, till the day it’s all gone.
When night fell I stumbled in the dark
I thought you’d give me a hand
Or maybe instead just hold mine in it.
You didn’t,
And therein taught me lesson five
On lighting my own candles
We no longer wonder whether they care anymore. And we know that when we say it, it isn’t with a cold angry defensive front, it’s with the peaceful calm that comes from having taken everything in our stride and having moved on.
They’d warned her it would be hard
She’d get bruised and wounded and it’d hurt all over,
But that it’d all be worth it in the end.
That’s also why, when we’re struggling to let go, the way forward is holding on even tighter.