I have come to realize something about myself lately. It is that whatever struggle I may be having with fitness (which is usually food related), I blame it on someone or something else.
I blame it on circumstances…well, if my life weren’t so stressful right now. I blame it on people…if they wouldn’t eat that in front of me. I even blame it on my children…I surely can’t deprive them entirely of junk food, so if they get to have it, why can’t I?
These aren’t things that I outwardly say. But the reality is that much of this thinking exists deep within.
And when you blame others or you blame circumstances, it takes the focus off your part. It makes it all about the “problem,” so that you never really come to a solution.
What is the real solution? Well it starts by getting off the blame game. It is not the fault of my circumstances in life, what others can eat or what my children should have that is the reason for my downfalls. It comes back to me.
And until I can really get that, I will never be victorious. Because all I am doing is playing this merry-go-round game of blame this and blame that…there will always be something to blame for my lack of…well, whatever it happens to be at that time.
The same might be true for you. Do you find yourself coming up with excuses or reasons that you can’t eat right? Or that you can’t exercise? You blame the overpriced gyms. You blame the lack of time. You blame not having someone to workout with. It can go on and on.
The blame game is nothing new. It started back in the Garden of Eden. And it is something that will continue until we decide to break the habit. What things or people have you been blaming when the finger should be pointing right back at you?
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