Celebrate Heart.

Listening to : Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z feat Alicia Keys

The World is in general, very unforgiving, unmerciful, does not give second chances and does not regard you as significant if you are of no real value, no real success.

That my friends, is the sad sad reality of how we live.

No, this was not the way it was meant to be, but instead, it has been imposed on us by society.

This sad structure of our lives only regard results, the money we make, the NUMBER of lives we touch, the NUMBER of people we have under us, the real STRENGTH that we have.

I know, many different firms have different ways of determining their rate of success.

For different people, the importance of these results vary from person to person.

In Organization, different firms value such results differently.

You and me eventually know that this is the sad truth.

Well, I'm here to tell you that no....

Not everywhere follows such a system. Yes it is a dog eat dog World out there.

However, when people eventually do find that solitude which overlooks the results but looks instead at the effort. Then that specific institution will naturally draw people towards it.

There're many organizations coming into realization of such goals. That it isn't all about results.

Yeah, there's a fine line that we need to be careful of, cause effort does translate to numbers eventually.

Well, are you confused or unsure of whatever I'm talking about?

It's all something which I caught in crossfit today.

My mind was going wild, crazy, in a huge spin.

I was basically losing it in the Workout, my timing was way behind everyone else.

But I was so so so tired and spent that I no longer had the strength to keep up.

I didn't finish in time. This is by far the toughest WOD I've ever done in my life.

I wanted to die and give up. There were people all around me cheering. EVERYONE was.

It was really a moment to behold, at least for me. Everyone else has finished.

There were at least a good 25 people surrounding me and shouting for me.

Telling me to breathe, pick it up, DON'T GIVE UP!

I was basically as tired as hell. The encouragement was all useful and I did eventually come through. It took me 15 minutes to complete the WOD. It was extremely heavy.

However, after all, I collapsed, as usual, on the floor catching my breathe.

I swear, I honestly wanted to die. I was in so much pain...

However, after the WOD, it was strange... What I noticed at least, for the past few times I did the fastest in timing, nobody really spoke of it.

But today, when I was last, but honestly gave it ALL. It felt so strange for people to approach me and commend me on the effort I had put in.

I realized, that in here, nobody celebrates championship, everyone celebrates HEART.

Money, expansion, grades, fitness can all be attained one way or another. For sure...

Conversely, instead of getting so caught up in all these rat races.

Don't forget to notice the effort, the heart that others place in their work.

Then again, you shouldn't forget what it means to give your all as well.

Chase excellence and success will definitely chase you.

People sometimes ask me what does crossfit do to you?

Improve your fitness? No....

It improves your capacity to give your all in your heart.

Shape the World that you want. Starting from yourself. Celebrate Heart.