Someone asked me today if I miss living in Mexico. Of course I do. The fact that I'm living again in the United States was a notion totally inconceivable when I moved down to Mexico, permanently, in 1999. I had moved there with my wife and son for good. Unfortunately, my so-called "partner in life" had other ideas and ultimately forced a very unfortunate hand. I've spent the last five years missing every bit of the amazing life I had down there and counting the days until I can move back. In the mean time I'm noticing that I'm not alone in realizing that earning dollars and spending Pesos is an economic paradise.
Motivation is the key to bringing any of your physical aspirations to fruition because it's consistency, above anything else, that brings on results. It's always easy in the beginning, but after a while everyone finds the urge to get-up-and-go to the gym waning. For some it's a passing thing - like a cold or the flu - for others, it's their downfall; something they can't escape. It beckons them to the couch like Mohamed to the mountain; the remote gets stuck to their hand, their muscles shrink and their bellies swell... it's not pretty.
As much as I tried, my eyes could barely open up all the way Monday morning, the edema in my face was pushing them shut. My entire body felt bolted to the mattress and as battered as if a truck had run me over e few hundred times in both forward and reverse. My head hurt, my joints hurt, and all my movements felt absurdly laborious and slow. I had just slept for 12 solid hours yet I felt as weak and as exhausted as I if I had just done the Eco Challenge.
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