Stages of Understanding

from 12/29/11 Post:

Stages of Understanding 

Is life perfect?  No, and nor will your fitness (and/or weight loss) journey be perfect.  Nothing in life is about reaching perfection but about doing your perfect best every opportunity you have to do it and understanding what that means.  Your perfect best changes from moment to moment as your circumstances change....but mostly as your understanding of your journey changes.  I was reading an article some months back that said "before you can know something, you first have to learn it; that understanding is necessarily a process of steps; and that this process takes time...everyone has to progress through certain stages of understanding."  It went on to draw the analogy of learning to play the piano or knit....one starts out very crudely but with practice and ongoing understanding improves and evolves.  In other words, with each stage of understanding of any craft, profession, or journey the start is always crude and then the destination is always further the closer we get to it because not only does our ability improve and evolve and become less and less crude but also we understand that one's learning, development....journey is never at an end (as the saying goes, the more you know, the more you realize you need to learn).  So, know that however clumsily any week/effort/workout goes you can learn something from it and move on to the next, better equipped to succeed further.  As this is not about the destination but the journey itself....The destination helps us set goals, but the journey is what makes us who we are and appreciate what we have.

"Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.  I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.  I can do all things through Christ Which strengtheneth me."  ~Philippians 4:11-13