{"id":2746,"date":"2023-10-08T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirnasaerobicstudio.com\/wp\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2023-10-08T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T09:35:53","slug":"get-busy-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirnasaerobicstudio.com\/wp\/2023\/10\/get-busy-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Get busy living\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anyone who has seen or read what is perhaps one of the greatest stories ever told \u2013 The Shawshank Redemption \u2013 would be all too familiar with the words that make up the title of this Blog.\u00a0 Last Sunday our Summer Challenge members were asked to complete this quote\u2026I have always thought that everyone knows this legendary movie quote, but from our members\u2019 reactions I learned that my assumption was wrong, and I thought, this calls for a Blog post\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I love \u201cThe Shawshank Redemption\u201d for many reasons.\u00a0 First and foremost, it\u2019s simply an amazing movie about the timeless themes of redemption, hope, and the triumph of the human spirit.\u00a0 Secondly, it\u2019s a movie that works on many levels, that is relevant to all of us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the surface, the movie is about Andy Dufresne, sentenced to a life in prison for killing his wife and her lover, a crime he didn\u2019t commit.\u00a0 In prison, Andy develops a friendship with Red, played by Morgan Freeman, and they dream about one day being free again.\u00a0 (The movie is on Netflix, watch it, it\u2019s mind-blowing!)\u00a0 It\u2019s a story about the human struggle to overcome adversity, move beyond whatever limitations we face and realize our dreams and aspirations.<\/p>\n

The line \u201cGet busy living, or get busy dying\u201d, really speaks to the simplicity of making life choices.\u00a0 In other words, we\u2019re either moving forward, or we\u2019re not.\u00a0 It really is that simple \u2013 we wake up every day and get to choose whether we get busy pursuing our goals and making things happen, or we get busy finding reasons not to excel.<\/p>\n

Each day you and I can choose to stay stuck in our own metaphorical prisons.\u00a0 Or not. We can choose to stay overweight and out of shape, or we can choose to put on our gym shoes and start working out.\u00a0 We can choose to stay victims of whatever is imprisoning us, or we can choose to plot our escapes.<\/p>\n

Whatever is holding you back in life, you can choose to overcome.\u00a0 In the movie, \u201cThe Shawshank Redemption\u201d, Tim Robbin\u2019s character, Andy, serves 20 years in prison.\u00a0 During the 20 years he served, he never gave up hope of one day reclaiming his freedom, despite suffering years of imprisonment and multiple setbacks.\u00a0 Andy\u2019s story is about persevering against all odds, and never giving up.<\/p>\n

Andy Dufresne tunnelled out of the worst prison in history, one handful of cement at a time.\u00a0 Each morning he would stroll along, whistling softly, hands in both pockets, while the concrete grit trickled out of his pant legs and onto the earth.\u00a0 Andy literally toted his wall out into the exercise yard, one handful at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet busy living, or get busy dying\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Andy\u2019s words illuminate clearly two separate paths, every individual faces in life \u2013 on the one hand, the choice of becoming an active participant in one\u2019s own life.\u00a0 And, on the other hand, passive resignation to the dictate of fate\u2026<\/p>\n

His story is my favourite allegory in all of film.\u00a0 Sure enough, we may not have been wrongly convicted and forced to serve time in a maximum-security prison, but in our lives, we are all sometimes faced with situations that may seem just as hopeless.<\/p>\n

Andy reminds us that there is always a way out.\u00a0 It may be a slow, long, and incremental journey, but there IS always a way out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If, each day, we take a small step toward change.\u00a0 If, each day, we progress shovelful by shovelful with each practice.\u00a0 If, each day, we figure out how to do something so small and gradual, that it almost looks like we are doing nothing.\u00a0 If, each day, we keep chipping away at even a little bit of the mass in front of us.\u00a0 Short and slow steps are okay \u2013 patience is the most underrated strategy for achieving almost anything.\u00a0 If we can train ourselves to be satisfied with each bite of the carrot, chewing just a bit more than we had before, then not only will we reach our destination, but we will enjoy the hell out of the journey!<\/p>\n

As Oscar Wilde accurately observed many years ago, \u201cTo live is the rarest thing in the world.\u00a0 Most people exist, that\u2019s all\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Get busy living or get busy dying.\u00a0 We have 86,400 seconds each day -and it\u2019s our choice what we do with them.\u00a0 The best way to do really big things is to start with deceptively small things.\u00a0 If your frustration is ballooning beyond containment, then grab a handful of rocks out of that wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It might just lead to the way out\u2026<\/p>\n

Yours in fitness<\/em><\/p>\n

Mirna<\/strong>
082 779 0507<\/p>\n

PS (If you are a Summer Challenge member, complete the following in a WhatsApp to Mirna before 20.00 \u2013 \u201cThe best way to do really great things\u2026\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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