Just Stay Down

If you are old enough to know who Rocky is, than just saying the name has the them song playing in
your head. You can picture Rocky running up the stairs with his dog, sweat running down into his eyes from his head band, and then victoriously raising his arms over his head in triumph as he jumps in place inspiring the world to go for a run; but, what if we were to change the end of the story? What if the day of the big fight, as Stallone takes punch after punch, his eye bleeding and bruised, you watch as in slow motion he hits the mat, the crowd gasps and he says in that epic out of the side of your mouth way, "it's to hard, I quit, I just can't get up." His coach looks at him and say's "you're right, just stay down". He concedes defeat and loses the fight, doesn't get the girl, the bad guy wins and the credits scroll.

Not very inspirational, definitely not the epic movie so many love to quote and remember decades later. We want the bad guy to lose and the good guy to win. What happens when you are the bad guy? The bad guy that's been  created, by feeding those habits that try to beat us, and keep us down? The bad guy is there waiting in the ring and he's got that smug look on his face, just begging to be put in his place. The good guy is on the mat face down, and the battle rages within us. You're not alone, the coach is there, and He is the best coach for this fight. He's ready to lead you to victory, if you can trust once more.
 To all of us that are still in the ring, and are down on the mat just wanting to stay there, we've lost the will to fight, GET BACK UP, get that second win, anticipate his moves, strike fast and hard, you've got this, the bad habits don't win!
CUE THE VICTORY MUSIC!