A Better Version of Yourself

Don't compare your results to someone else's. You can never be another person, you can only be a better version of yourself. - Unknown

More true words have never been spoken.  Comparing yourself is the easy way to convince oneself that you can never achieve anything that others have or better yet, become a better version of yourself.  In short, you can never measure up.   O' so so not true.  

4+ years ago I felt the exact say way.  I was overweight and very unhealthy.  I had just convinced myself I had past my prime and could never return to the health I had experienced before.  I thought, no way its way to much work to 'get lost' and find 'me' again.  Well, I was right...but hold on as I almost got you.  

Here is what I was right about.  It would take much work.  Much work it did.  Dieting, working out, learning about food in every way, stress control, rest, being truthful to myself, and caring enough about myself to be honest with my doctor.  O' did I mention learning about what was going in my body...as you would not believe what kind of crap was going into this body.  Ever read the ingredients label on a hot pocket?  If not, do it now!!!  What is all the junk?  I tell you what it isn't.  It isn't anything you need to put into the human machine.   Boy I could go on and on right now about food, but I will save that for a specific blog in the future.

Kevin Completing Ironman Florida 2012

So back to being a better version of yourself.  I want you to know those are strong words to live by.  Once I learned to apply these, I quit caring how I stacked up to others.  What I did learn was how to stack myself up against me and the better me I wanted to be.  Once I started to apply this everyday I started becoming a better version of myself.  I started to like myself again.  I started to see results.  I started to find the real me within the person I had become.  By only comparing "ME" to the person I was the day before, did I begin to Get Lost.  Get lost from the old me that wasn't really even me and become the me that was me all along...What?  Confused?  Don't be its just the way I have learned that if I Prepare to Live Life then I can learn to laugh at myself.  I'm only comparing the past me here in the present as I've take myself back to the future where "I am a better version of myself"!!!

So Get Lost...Prepare to Live Life...In a better version of YOURSELF!!!