Finally seeing efforts pay off…
Often times when it comes to exercise or eating healthy, we fail to see the immediate benefits…we have times when we question whether it’s all worth it. The same goes for all the work necessarily for making a documentary film…there are trying times, where you wonder if it’s all worth it.
You have to keep telling yourself to stick with it…sometimes it involves blind faith.
This past weekend, one of our early documentary subject, and a close friend of mine, after many starts and stops, after losing 20 pounds and regaining it…finally indicated that he’s seen the end of the tunnel — it was in many ways very rewarding to me to hear him say that.
There is a new confidence he has in “how it all works” - and he finally has decided that all of the effort, planning meals, staying motivated to exercise daily…”is worth it” (his own words). In essence, this is what the film’s purpose is. So to hear him come to this conclusion on his own, was really a breakthrough in my opinion. It means that there is hope, for those who do not believe it is worth it…that if they just stick it out - they will see what it is all about.
He continued, “When you see those TV ads that say ‘results not typical’…they really are typical, if you do it all consistently…but most people don’t do that.”
So he is saying, that great results can be typical, if we understand the steps needed to get there.
This blog post reminds me of something a sportswriter wrote once. He said that in athletics, the difference between greatness and average performance isn’t talent. It’s consistency. Any pro athlete can be great occasionally. But only a few are great all the time.
The same is true for losing weight I guess. to be successful, you’ve got to do the right things consistently…
Richard
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