I’m having a much better day today. I worked from home all day long and stayed away from our downtown office. I haven’t even checked phone messages. I just don’t want to. I’m going to call today a “personal development/mental health day”.

One thing that really made my day was the fact that I got the political book that was on my wish list. We have a wonderful, small town bookstore than can special order anything and I always try to buy local when I can. It’s important to our economy and to the businesses in my town (including my own).

Imagine my immense joy that the owner of the bookstore was able to pull some strings and get the LAST copy available of The Politician by Andrew Young from a town an hour away. Apparently it’s a hot book right now, and NO ONE has it. Keep in mind I live in the freaking boonies of northern Michigan.

I’m such a dork, I know. But I’m easy to please. Just buy me a
good novel. With lots of political trash. LOL

I’ve been thinking a lot in regards to the whole gym situation from Wednesday night when my trainer walked out during one of my training sessions because he was having a bad day of my bad attitude the stars not being in alignment.

The thing to keep in mind here is that I love training with Dean, and I think that’s evident in a lot of my posts and I think it’s fair to say he feels the same way about training me. I think Dean is fantastic at what he does and is a great motivator, and above all I like the guy.

Over the last three months, I’ve become good friends with him. I bounce a lot of business ideas off of him, share personal things with him too, so it’s a little more than just a trainer/client relationship. I actually think of him as kind of a big brother – but a good friend above all. Like any friendship, we get along great most days. But as a trainer he has to deal with me at my worst most of the time. Complaining, whining, tired, looking like shit and haggard, unshowered, etc.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons why everything got to me so much and why I took it so personal. I still don’t agree with what happened Wednesday night and how it played out, but it’s over with and it’s in the past. I’ve told him how I felt it could have been handled differently, and he’s told me how he feels about my recent lack of effort in my training sessions, and that he thinks I could be giving it more.

I value our friendship and his expertise in what he does. In keeping all of this in mind during my re-evaluation, I’ve decided to bring down my training sessions from three days a week to one day a week.

In the hopes of keeping myself focused and looking forward to our session, I picked a day that would be the least busy at the gym because I really struggle when the place is packed and we’re training with a bunch of people. (It makes my head spin when it’s busy.)

I’m also going to hit up my P90X too, as I really, really want to do that. I’m intrigued by the challenge and can’t wait to get started. I’m also interested in Sean T’s Insanity. Have you seen that program advertised? It looks, well, ridiculously insane!

I truly believe that Dean has prepared me to be successful and I know a lot of the exercises and movements now, so I think this is going to be a good thing. I always have the option of upping the number of workouts at anytime and I know that he will be down with that – I just need to say the word.

I think this will be a good test for me – to see if I can do this on my own most of the week, and then I’ll get the best of him on my training day. Because the whole goal is for me to get healthy and fit. Plus, I want to be able to do this on my own, and in the best way possible for ME.

Enough of that crap, but I wanted to tie that up since a lot of you were wanting an update. :)

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Do you have any plans? Inquiring minds want to know! :)

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