Baseball and Life

I have never been a huge baseball fan. I mean, I love going to baseball games, and the Red Sox will always be number one to me...but watching it on TV or talking about it, was never really my "thing". I'm a football girl...just the way it is. However, I'm now dating this amazing man, who loves baseball and coaches his sons baseball team. So, I am trying to be be supportive and understand the game more. I should mention I did get nominated (ok, I offered because I love this stuff) to run the PAL Baseball Facebook page, and as I'm working on the page I am coming across all these amazing quotes about baseball. I know that all sports have quotes, but focus -- we are talking about baseball right now...

Here's one that I love... "never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game" This is a perfect view on life - forget baseball. We all have these ups and downs in life. We all fear we will strike out with love, a job, weight loss, whatever your "thing" may be. But if we always fear that, then we will never play the game to our best ability. We will never lose the weight we want to lose, we will never fall in love because we will always be thinking about the worst (the strike out).

Another one I found was "a word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success" -- how powerful is that? If at every time in your life someone came up to you during each failure point and said ONE thing of encouragement to you -- would that not make your life a little easier? Instead, most people wait until you finally did something right and they start telling you how amazing you are and "praising" your change in life (whatever it may be). Oh...wait. People DO offer us encouragement during failures...and 9 times out of 10, we ignore them. Here's something we can learn from this -- when you fail, and someone tells you something encouraging -- listen to them. If an 11 year old can listen to their coach and go back on the field and win a game...why can't we win at life? Really though...it is that simple, if we make it that simple.

Here's another great one - "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination" -- well that hits the nail on the head. I've been fighting with myself on getting to my goal weight. The only reason I am fighting with myself though, is because of my determination. It is not impossible to reach 150lbs...but if I am not putting my all into it and I'm not determined to do it, and I just keep saying I'm going to do it -- it's never going to be possible. See...again, simple.

I got on the scale yesterday for the first time in like two months...wow. Why is it that putting weight ON takes about a day and taking it off takes about a year? Wake up call for me...I've gained, and not just a little. I was down to 177lbs at my lowest (which was like January-ish). Currently... 190lbs. Time to get that determination factor turned back up and make the possible happen. Back to 40lbs away from my goal...but it's ok. I CAN DO IT!

Here goes nothing...

~Melissa
Current: 190lbs
Goal: 150lbs