All Assumptions Are Dangerous…

I’m behind! I don’t like that…
Here’s a post that’s been sitting in drafts since Tuesday morning.  I have NO idea how it can be Friday tomorrow already…

“All assumptions are dangerous, even this one,” is a quote by Benjamin Disreali, a former UK Prime Minister, and he’s right.
Today started far too early, after training hard the day before, so I switched the alarm off at 5am and decided 7am sounded far more civilised.
I was working away on the laptop when Jack came and told me that there was something wrong with the fridge, “…it’s warm on the inside!”
Oh marvellous!
Now, it was either Sunday evening or Monday morning when we noticed the light in the fridge wasn’t working. There was nothing to suggest anything else was amiss, so I thought perhaps it was just the bulb that had blown and made a mental note to get a new one the next time I was out.
But now the fridge is warm on the inside, so it has to be something more serious than a broken bulb.
The fridge is actually a fridge freezer and it’s fitted into one of the kitchen cupboards, so that means if the fridge is warm then the same will be true of the freezer and it had potentially been off for over 24 hours!!!
I was on an 8am deadline and the fridge revelation came in at 7.40am.
The kids moved everything from the kitchen fridge to one of the fridges in the garage, I managed to move my deadline back an hour and dashed downstairs to discover that EVERYTHING in the freezer had defrosted.
Now, I’m not a big fan of food poisoning and not remembering when exactly we noticed the light had gone out, I wasn’t going to take any chances so all food in the freezer had to go.
This was BAD news as there was rather a lot of salmon and chicken in there, which now needs to be replaced.
I was NOT happy!!!! Okay, that’s a huge understatement – my mood was not pretty at all. Not only that, I had a broken fridge-freezer to deal with. Brilliant!
Half an hour, or so, later I’d calmed down a bit and was talking to my mum about it all when I had a sudden brainwave!
The big tubs of protein powder are kept on the worktop next the cupboard that houses the fridge…and guess what’s on the wall behind those tubs of protein? The main switch for the fridge…which was half on, half off.
A quick flick of the switch, back to on, and everything whirred back in to life! There was nothing wrong with it at all – one of us, and who knows which one, must have shoved one of the tubs back against the wall and knocked the switch.
So, all is well in the land of my kitchen appliances *hurrah*
The fridge-freezer doesn’t need replacing, neither does the light bulb, and the freezer is all clear and nicely defrosted which saves me a job I wasn’t looking forward to (there’s always a positive in something somewhere!).
I had jumped straight to the worst possible scenario and assumed that the fridge-freezer had gone bang – half an hour of ‘rage’ and stomping around for nothing!
Yes the food still needs to be replaced but there’s nothing I can do to change that, so there’s no point getting worked up about it. And if that’s the only thing I need to worry about (which it is, pretty much) then I should consider myself very fortunate (which I am!).
It’s too easy to assume things and if we don’t make a conscious effort not to, we tend to jump straight to the worst possible conclusion when things aren’t what we expect, or going the way we want them too.
So you’ve started a training programme and the results aren’t coming in the way you want them to; you’re disappointed and start assuming the programme doesn’t work.
If you’re training hard, eating properly and drinking the correct amount of water then you can’t be making anything other than forward progress, even though it doesn’t seem like it.
Now, I’ve left my rather ready-for-cosmetic-surgery measuring marks in my photographs recently, so you can see where my inch results are being tracked from.
But I can see other areas improving that AREN’T marked!
Don’t assume that because the tape measure, scales and calipers aren’t being as ‘nice’ to you as you want them to be, that it’s no good and that nothing works for you so you might as well give up (again!).
Take a rational step back and consider the following:

• Have I REALLY followed the training programme to the letter?
• Have I REALLY followed the eating programme to the letter?
• Have I REALLY drunk enough water every day?
• Have I REALLY got enough sleep every night?

If you can truthfully answer yes to all of those things then you can SAFELY ASSUME that you are making positive progress, there really isn’t any other alternative 😀