I Heard Something Outrageous Last Week

To be honest I am not sure if it was meant as a joke but it certainly sounded legit at that time.

After futsal one day, a couple of us went out for dinner. We asked a friend to consider working out, gain some mass and muscle. He’s a good player, but it would be great if he could be physically stronger on the court.

“No man, too late for that already” he said.

I was like what?! How can anyone at the age of 27 say its too late to go to the gym to muscle up?

There is no need to have a body like this (though age is still not an issue)

There has got to be way better excuses than that right?

I might think that is crazy for someone to use age  as an excuse for gym but to him it could have been perfectly justified.

That statement made me reflect on certain limiting beliefs I impose on myself. For fun lets take a look at one.

“Its too late to learn programming”

I do think that if I start now, I would have a intermediate knowledge of it in 5 years. I would be 31 years old. Not young, not old.

My mind tells me that I’m probably not willing to put in the hard work. That’s why I’m stalling. Some of the backing excuses I give with regards to this is actually quite hilarious.

1. I don’t know where to start. Those self learn books look boring and texty.

2. I not sure if I can see myself staying up all night typing code.

3. I don’t see myself as being great at logic/problem solving.

4. Ooo this is a good one – I have no time to learn it.

Yup. I hear you. All lame excuses.

But this is good because now I understand what it looks like from a different point of view.

I think for now I’ll give myself a pat on the back for being aware of all my crap.

#winning