Take that plunge!

I had had this really stressful week and had been looking forward to some tennis.....somehow I find it relaxing! Great outfit, really comfy footwear, air in my face and hair, the great outdoors and the sense of being in control......I hit that ball to exactly where I want it to go!!...( yea I know, I am a lil bit of a control freak....shoot me  :p)...and as I really can't toss people around, I take it out on the ball :D. And the best part is you get to tone up and burn off some calories the fun way.

So errrrrrrrm I just started playing and only got regular pretty recently( needed to create that time and quit the excuses) and my coach has been treating me like a burra all this while. So after like an hour of play, we stopped for some water, and then some tough men that usually played really hard shots bounced into the court and started demo-ing. I watched for about 15 mins and then turned to my coach and said I wanted to go doubles with them. You should have seen the look on his face! "No madam, lets still wait a bit, no rush...blah blah black sheep" For crying out loud I'm not training for a championship or to compete with Serena Williams na.....enough with the leg walks already!! My response "Oga don't worry, let me go and swim in the deep end that has sharks, I will hustle and swim my way out".

I picked up my racket, winked at my namesake/best friend(after my Femi, my sister of life :D) /client that had followed me to the court that morning and took that seemingly long walk to my "doom". You might think I'm being overtly dramatic, but really I could have wounded myself, been laughed and snickered at for slowing their game down or just be plain embarrassed in front of a lot of people. But for some reason I didn't give a hoot, all I saw was the end....I needed to prove to my coach, my bestie, and all who watched I could do it and of course change my tennis "destiny"! Fast-forward to 40 minutes after.....I had proved my point. The guys were impressed, one a little intimidated and my coach was beaming with pride ; my bestie screaming her lungs out!! I had a blast!!!

MY POINT: Most times you do not know your capacity until you are thrown into the "deep end with some hungry sharks". It is actually even an unwritten philosophy in general life . That is what has really separated the successful CEOs from the struggling employees - the ability to take that plunge...with a strategy of course! We need to stop the damn excuses (excuse my french please).

I am baffled every time I hear "I can't exercise" or "I have no time to plan my meals" or "It is  soooo hard" and yet we want healthy hearts and banging bodies! Like seriously? And what is more baffling is these excuses are from supposedly strong women - who from a tender age of 13 start to bleed at a certain time of the month every month with accompanying pain and still expected to wake up early , go to school and get perfect grades ; who have suffered heartbreaks over and over again and still go out with their heads high and meet up with deliverables ; who have had to deal with stereotype mentalities that boys rule the world ; who can't wear snickers and be seen as a lady in this vain generation unless you are in 3,4,5" heels....and you wear that all day and still have a straight back and a peachy smile ; who gets home after all that hustle and hubby and kids are catered too.....even after driving in lasgidi's traffic.

These shoes are divine #lovestruck.......I so don't mind wearing them all day!

And then to do this one thing for ourselves........this one thing that will help our confidence and our health....we can't.......but we want the outcome.  hian!!

The truth is in almost every other area of our lives, we have taken that plunge and kicked those sharks out and dominated that terrain......so why not in this area? We need to add that to our priority list and put it right at the top if possible.

TAKE THAT PLUNGE TODAY! I am not saying it will be a walk in the park....some sharks in trying to bite you could graze you, or their fins prick you, or in trying to dodge being bitten you could knock your foot against a rock. I missed a couple of balls, hit some balls that got stuck in nets on the court that morning.....but my good, strong hits outweighed the weak ones hence earning me a place on my make belief "medal board"



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