Ok now that the click bait title got you, you can hear me brag about how I managed to keep my weight stable over Christmas (for the first time in my entire life as it happens). Then you can hear me tell you about how I am basically down a ton of weight from this time last year (all my students sigh in unison at this point as they have heard it over and over for a year). Or how my business survived the pandemic and we are all training harder, competing and doing better than ever.
Here is the problem with resolutions, I find it hard to listen to what I tell myself to do, “Lorenzo, don’t eat burgers and cut down on bad food”… Same evening on an instagram story posting a picture of my double burger from some hipster burger joint somewhere. “Lorenzo, you need to do dry January” same story, that picture below of me drinking a glass of wine on the 3rd of January, I only really made it one day as I was still drinking past midnight on the 1st.
My 2022 plans
So what do I do? What do I want to happen this year? I want to grow Wave, I want to plan to get to a new gym space in the next two to three years, that involves doing stuff now to get ready for that. This is the work part for the year, meh it’s exciting and stressful just thinking about it, but hey I’ve done this much, what else am I going to do?
I want to keep competing and training hard, it has taken me a lifetime to get to this point of loving all my gym, BJJ, yoga and other activities that improve my fitness keep me going and get me excited, even if I still pretend to hate it all. I mean I have to pretend to hate it otherwise I will hate myself for loving it, it wouldn’t be cool to admit that I actually like doing it.
I want to do all the things I’ve always wanted to do like a big kid, I want to do scuba diving, I want to get into motorsport somehow, I want to travel and eat at all the restaurants and drink at all the bars I’ve seen on travel shows. I am and always will be a big kid, but part of me was trying to grow up somehow, accepting myself has taken a big weight off my shoulders and meant that I can make mistakes, laugh and try things that I never thought I’d have the time to do.
want new relationships, I want to make lots of new friends, open up more and leave my comfort zone, I want to see old friends and keep in touch and see what they are up to. I would even like to meet someone special and share these experiences with, this one seems to be a big ask with all the other things I do, but hey why not? I can make it work.
Stuff? What stuff?
I am after experiences, all of the above are experiences. Yes they need some money, but I will find ways to make it work on less. All the money stuff will come, maybe next year, maybe the year after but waiting and thinking about that will make me miss the great life I have been able to create.
The basic idea of this post is, don’t focus on the usual things, focus on doing things that aren’t eating too much, drinking too much or watching Netflix too much, you can do all those as well, but if you fill your life with fun activities and friends the health and happiness takes care of itself. Now go out there and do new things, be open to people and if you need some help open up to your good friends, they love you and care. You got this, if you knew me growing up you would believe you can do all this too, trust me :)