Bring The Thunder

Pat Tillman would tell people that he is going to "Bring The Thunder" --Those are His words---on the surface, it meant that he intended to run down the field and lay a big hit on whoever the ball carrier was. Underneath, I think he meant he was bringing everything he has to everything he does.

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Bringing everything you have to everything you do is exhausting. Its painful, and its harder to do when you try to skip a play here or there, or in comparison, and in non football terms, when you let yourself do less than you could have, that tendency can creep in and become a nasty habit.

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Bringing it has rewards though, bringing it will get you promotions and money. Bringing it will provide stature in life. Bringing it will wear you out, It will take its toll physically, mentally and emotionally, but at the same time it will reward you. Nothing in life is free and the effort required to live it fully will also cause loss to enter your life.

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So many people are happy with just being. They get up in the morning and go to work to earn their paycheck. They bitch when that is all that they get however, and then they wonder why even though they have been there longer, they are passed up for promotions and they moan about not getting that newer, bigger and better paycheck.

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Pat Tillman brought it, and then he brought it some more, and later on, he ended up making a decision that got him killed because he cared. The man had passion about life and the man knew what it took to make life worthwhile. I still think about Pat Tillman quite a bit and I never knew him. I have read about the man, and I admire what he was all about and try to "bring the thunder" in my own life as best I can. I try to do it at work, and elsewhere, I try to be a good friend to the friends I have. I try to be the best Dad I am able to be under the circumstances I find myself in for my children, and I just always try to do whatever I am doing, as well as I can.

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One area where I have not had any thunder for awhile, and where I have been sucking quite a bit, has been in my own physical fitness. I have taken shortcuts, I have been lazy. I have justified it to myself, I will say "Hell Bill you deserve to sit on your ass after a long day at work with all the stress that involves." "You are entitled to relax a little. Plus you are older now Bill, your metabolism has slowed and really it doesn't matter."

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Well, no, ----- it does matter, because its not the best I am capable of and deep down I know I was lying to myself. So as far as physical fitness goes I intend to try to ramp the thunder up. I will try to bring it in that aspect of my life once again and here I am putting it in my blog so others can mock and judge me if I fail.

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Here are my goals: By August 15th, to weigh 230 lbs or less (and at 230 I am pretty ripped as, although I have the fat that I alluded to, and that I am not proud of, I am also pretty muscular as well)