CANADIAN PHYSIQUE ALLIANCE SEPTEMBER || ISSUE 38 | Page 46

ENTER
DISCIPLINE...
As part of creating a successful path for
myself, I’ve committed to listening to
motivational clips and setting intentions in the
morning before work. I was listening to Tony
Robbins. He told the story of an elephant that
was tied with a rope to a small peg in the
ground as a baby. While young and
potentially incapable of breaking free, it is
conditioned as it gets older and stronger that
it cannot break free and thus, will never try.
We know this adult elephant in its majestic
glory could break to freedom in a moment;
however, it believes it cannot and thus
remains. This resonated with me. I feel as
though my lack of sense of deserving and
current habits are currently my peg and rope.
This first month since I started “this”
documentation process, I have really noticed
my habitual behaviours and my coping
methods. I certainly know that grabbing the
office-provided TimBit is not going to serve
my goals, but there I go. For me, having one
doesn’t exist. Sugar sends me over the edge
into diet blasphemy, but that’s another
column. I do these things and I am past
understanding why as much as I just want to
stop. Enter discipline.
 I FEEL AS
THOUGH MY
LACK OF
SENSE OF
DESERVING
AND CURRENT
HABITS ARE
CURRENTLY
MY PEG AND
ROPE.