Rockclimbing (and being broke)

I signed up for a membership with an indoor rock climbing gym for the next two months, another activity to add for this summer (membership includes yoga and pilates classes woo!). I've pretty much set my summer up for some personal growth. 

It's been two months since I've been out of school and I still have no job and haven't been as productive as I expected I would be. At this point I think I have to look at what I've been doing wrong. Here are some of the tips I've read (courtesy of an email from a buddy of mine) to overcome failure:

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I take a breath. It’s not the end of the world to fail. I just need some space, some distance. I need to see the problem in perspective. When I do, I realize that the failure is pretty minor in the grand scheme of my life, in the grand scheme of the world of lives around me.

I reframe the failure. Someone once said there isn’t failure, only feedback. That means the failure is just a point of information, a part of the learning process. I like to say, it’s not a failure of me as a person, just a failure of my method. Which means I need to change my method.

I change the method. If the way I was doing it didn’t work, I need to find a new way. What can I do differently? In some of the cases above, I added some accountability, asked people for help, or looked for inspiration. In some of the other cases, I haven’t changed the method yet, to be honest.

I take the first step. The problem can be overwhelming, because quite frankly we can’t solve any of this stuff overnight, or even in a few days. We can, however, take one step, right now. One tiny step. And that’s all that matters.

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Hopefully this membership will push me a little bit more to get in better shape.

So far to keep myself active I've been:

- taking drop in hip hop classes at least once a week

- running every other day (or running after 2 days)

- strength training every other day 

I haven't seen results yet. It's probably because I don't think I am pushing myself to sweat enough so hopefully that changes soon.