Music Monday: All In The Suit That You Wear

This week's Music Monday is "All In The Suit That You Wear" by Stone Temple Pilots.

I really wanted to find a motivating song for this week for all of the people that started a New Year's resolution. I thought of this song last week during one of my runs at a time when I was questioning my effort and trying to decide if I was motivated enough. This song came on while these questions were puzzling me.

At the EXACT perfect time.

The opening lyrics kinda sum up what we go through at times. Those positive thoughts and motivations that we need to get us through sometimes get pushed down because we lose confidence in ourselves and hold ourselves back.

Hey you, someone said you were lost out there
In the grip, trying to strangle us all down here
In the meantime, are you ever gonna set us free
Hey you, will we ever get out of here?

The "suit that you wear", to me, is the mindset and attitude that you take into a situation. Most of the time when we struggle to keep working towards our goals it is because we fail to keep ourselves motivated. When we go into it with doubts and fears we have a hard time following through and either quit or don't give our best effort.

All in the suit that you wear
When you're looking for something
It's in the suit that you wear
when you're hiding from someone
All in the suit that you wear
When you wear it

So my question is: what suit do you wear? Are you confident? Are you in control? Do you even WANT to do this? Most of the time the physical part is the easiest. It's the mental part that is toughest.

It's all in the suit that you wear!

Enjoy!

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