The Scenario: A Further Look

The Scenario: A Further LookJohn has worked his way through week four, in which he has made tremendous improvement.  He looks different in the mirror now. Not only has his body composition changed, but his face seems to have a different light about it, which has become motivating in his mind. Though John still has an ongoing relationship with opiate, he has really started contemplating serious change, meaning ending his relationship with Opiate.  He has started to see Opiate as being counterproductive to the healthy lifestyle he is now trying to live. He has realized that Opiate is just holding him back.John has even been researching a few detox clinics where he can go in and detox for a weekend, and then be back on track with the program the following week. He’s almost got his mind made up to do this, but something seems to be holding him back as he contemplates this change. The Dragon and Opiate are worried about losing their client, so their whispers become clearer and more frequent: “You can’t do this”-they tell him. “Even if you do end our relationship for a time, you will come back to us – so why leave us; you will fail in your effort, so don’t even try” – He constantly whispers.Back to me…Keep in mind John has already been to three or more traditional rehabs where he has failed to find success. Now John is going on his fifth week of this new program where their philosophy revolves around action based learning, and creating a new lifestyle in hopes of replacing a bad addiction with a healthy addiction through elite fitness, nutrition, and spirituality.I’m not knocking traditional rehabs, because I think a lot of them are great.  What I am saying is that rehab puts people into a bubble where they are, in a sense, on vacation for six weeks. I realize that some people need to be put into a bubble for a time because of the severity of their addiction.  However, I do feel that there are a lot of strong people out there who could start a lifestyle such as John has, and slowly create a new life for themselves - such as John is starting to do.  If you notice, the healthy new way of life starts outshining the dark world of the Opiate. John is starting to think that he wants to get rid of the Opiate for good, so he’s been researching various detox clinics.  When the Opiate relationship ends through the detox clinic, John has already created a lifestyle for himself; he now has something to turn to, and even fall back on. He already has something to replace Opiate with, which is nutrition, fitness, being physically active, and spirituality.I realize as readers you may be thinking: "Ok, so John goes to this program that is two hours, four to five times a week - what does he do with the rest of his time? Traditional rehabs have something going on all day long.  This program doesn't offer nearly enough..."  My response is that they are absolutely right; however, having our day outlined for us all the time isn't realistic when it comes to life.  This goes back to the bubble. The rehab bubble isn't realistic compared to life; therefore, all people who go into the bubble are eventually going to have to deal with the real world – good and bad.  A person such as John has already been working at his life and even improving his life, while at the same time slowly ending his relationship with Opiate.As stated above, this wouldn't be the case for everyone because each person handles their addiction differently. I would say though that John's situation is unique, and if he does in fact have what it takes to quit Opiate, he will have created an incredible lifestyle for himself - a lifestyle that he has already been familiarized with. Therefore, he is now in a position to improve upon that lifestyle.  Sure, John is still going to go through the psychological battle with the Dragon, but so is the person that just came out of the bubble. I feel that John will be better prepared when he comes home from his weekend in detox because of the lifestyle he has created for himself those past five weeks. John hasn’t been in a bubble; he’s been working diligently in the real world on improving himself in hopes of ending his relationship with Opiate. John now has more hope than he’s ever known because he’s seen a glimpse of the performance enhanced life that he is capable of achieving through this WAR Program.Me (WAR Lifestyle Coach) talking to John…The Diligent Pursuit:In order for you to really change from the inside out, you must have a diligent nature about you.  You have to be persistent in your pursuit to finding another way.  This WAR Lifestyle is a lifestyle of progress where willing individuals have the opportunity to experience a new elite way of life. It’s an active, performance enhanced life, which if sought out and lived to the fullest, will lead you on a progressive upward journey to experiencing a life you never thought was possible. However, it is going to take a diligent effort on your part to get there. It’s going to take sweat, heartache, blood, and tears, followed by intense adversity, and even more tears. But you can get there.You can’t expect to change just by talking about changing. Change takes a diligent effort, an effort that may be uncomfortable at times. You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You have to become diligent in your Gym attendance.  You have to be avid about improving your strength and fitness levels.  You have to be diligent in your gym note taking where you are constantly logging your loads and times. You have to be diligent in your nutrition. You have to look to improve how you fuel yourself on a regular basis. You have to tie your kitchen directly into the WAR workouts.  You have to fuel yourself with the idea in mind that you want to have a good experience in the gym.  You have to understand that the Gym experience revolves around nutrition; and if your nutrition is lacking, so is your gym experience - for one doesn’t perform well without the other. You have to be diligent in the WAR classroom.  The concepts and topics that are discussed have to be implemented, or they remain just concepts and topics that were discussed.  It’s easy to talk the talk; it’s another thing to walk the walk.  You have to be diligent in your study and also diligent in your search for spirituality.  Spirituality can bring many gifts in to your life, but these gifts are only granted if you seek them out through diligent study and heart felt prayer; however, this study and heartfelt prayer has to be consistently taking place in your life.  It can’t be a sporadic effort where you just decide to take a day off because you were to busy or tired.  You can’t use excuses when trying to change.  Everyone has time. Make time for yourself and be diligent in your pursuit to change, for it is the only way to really change.  If changing was such an easy process, everyone would be doing it; however, everyone isn’t doing it because they are lazy and don’t have that diligent nature about them to do something out of the ordinary on a consistent basis.  They don’t have the understanding of what it takes to truly change, because change isn’t something that takes place overnight.  Change is a process.Once the change slowly starts unfolding in your life - you have to be even more diligent, and look to improve and change yourself even more. There is no cap on how far you can progress, and being diligent is the key to growth and change, but it can’t stop.  The gift of diligence has to remain in your life so you can continue growing, for without it, you will stall and eventually regress.Just as God has given us all gifts and talents, diligence is a gift that has to be developed.  You have to pray fervently for it and then work to receive it.  It has to be a conscious effort on your part, but once you come to understand the importance of diligence, you will continually strive to keep it a priority in your life.  You will come to the realization that being a diligent person plays a key role in change, and even progress.To be Continued…Part 4 of The Scenario seriesClick Here for Part 1: The ScenarioClick Here for Part 2: The Scenario Continues