These 4 Things Don’t Lie

Lie from truth, truth from lie.  It can get hard to discern the two.

But there are things that don’t lie.

 

Iron

When I first started exercising, I couldn’t do one push-up.  And I wouldn’t be able to imagine my way to one push-up.  I had to be physically able to do it.

I had to build my way to it.

I started going to a gym, and lifting weights.  I had to face reality very quickly.  I started out lifting 30 pound weights.

Because I couldn’t lift the 50 pound ones.

I thought I could, but I couldn’t.

That was a painful lesson in humility.

Iron doesn’t lie.  Physical ability doesn’t lie.  50 pounds is 50 pounds.  No other way to go about that.

Either you can do it, or you don’t.

We all have the potential, but what have we done so far to develop and build that?  To coax that potential out of its shell?

Potential doesn’t automatically mean we can perform at that level consistently.  We’ve got to invest to turn our potentials, our talents, into strengths.

You build strength.  There are no shortcuts.  No lies.

What’s lying, is our belief about what our bodies are capable of.

What we see our bodies as capable of, our potential and limits.  That can be a lie.

Often, we have a limited view of our capabilities and strengths.  We haven’t explored, or developed what we have.  Or we might have had a painful experience that still affects how we see and believe what we are capable of.

For the longest time, I believed being fit was never in my blood, and that I would never be fit.  

That was a lie.

 

Weather

It is what it is.

If it’s raining, then it’s raining.  If it’s a sunny day, then it’s a sunny day.  No two ways to go about it.

But why is it that we allow the weather to influence and control our mood?  There’s no way to change the weather.

But you can choose to react otherwise.

Yourself and your emotions, you can control.

And it’s us.  We give the weather meaning.  We interpret it to mean whatever we want it to mean at any given time, given our circumstances, feelings, moods, and beliefs.

The weather doesn’t care about your mood, or how you’re feeling.  It will just continue to bring what it brings.

What’s lying here is our interpretation of the weather, particularly if there are emotional consequences of that interpretation.

What’s also lying here is our level of acceptance to what’s happening to us amidst the weather conditions.

It’s not the weather that’s making us feel down, or uncomfortable.  It is what it is, and it brings what it brings.

It’s us.  It’s our choice.

 

Facts and Data

Facts, data, when recorded well, are accurate, descriptive, and measured.  If something is 2 meters tall now, then it’s 2 meters tall now.  If it changes, then there are reasons why that change happened, which can be backed up by facts and data.

Again, facts and data don’t lie.

It’s people’s assumptions, interpretations, and projections that make the data lie.

Facts are facts, and data is data.  It’s what we do to is, how we present it, and what we choose to show or not show, that can make the data biased.

That makes the data lie.

When that happens, it’s not longer the accurate, unbiased measure that it is.  It then becomes a tool to justify, to advance somebody’s viewpoint.  To push somebody’s agenda.

It’s similar to weather.  It is what it is, and it’s our internal goings-on that’s giving it meaning and interpretation.

In this manner, we can actually lie to ourselves.

 

Inner Voice

The inner voice, the inner you, doesn’t lie.

It tells the truth every single time.

About how we’re feeling, and our real opinions on the matter.

We’ve called it a lot of things over the centuries – a voice in your head, your gut, your conscience.

Whatever you call it, there’s a feeling inside of you that tells you what you really feel and think in any given moment – that’s the inner voice.

It’s like our inner child.  In the same way that children are so self-expressive, and have no filters, and really say what they mean.  No two ways to go about it.

then we’re educated, raised, and experience the world.

And all of the pressure, pride, fear, drown out the inner voice, blur out the inner kid inside of us, and replaces all of that with behaviors and habits expected of an adult.

Given enough time, we lose the ability to listen to ourselves.

We lose the ability to discern.

We don’t listen to ourselves, and we tell ourselves something else instead.

Or listen to what other people are telling us.  And just that.

We lie to ourselves, and don’t listen to the truth our body, heart, and innermost thoughts are trying to tell us.

There’s always truth inside of us.

The question is do we listen to it?  Or do we cover it up with lies?

 

Don’t lie to yourself.

Please.

I’ve had an experience, for two years, I was telling myself I was ok.

When I was most certainly not.

I’d give a lot, almost anything, to have those two years of my wasted life back.

Wasted on believing the lie that I was ok, and that I was having a good life.

Face truth in the face and accept it.

Don’t lie to other people.

And most especially,

Don’t lie to yourself.

 

What doesn’t lie?  Please share in the comments below!