Meh, Self promotion is mostly pathetic.
It’s also largely perpetrated by those who don’t really believe in themselves and need others to do it for them. Although I’m certain there’s a proportion who actually do think the rest of us care what they had for breakfast, or whatever…
I think that your friend made a blanket statement that could be made about anything or anybody. Churches, gyms, buisnesses, schools anywhere you will find the self absorbed.
Andrew made a point that I would love to argue with. Making time to train even if you have to put some people on hold is not a bad thing. As long as you fufill you responsiabilities taking some time for you is not bad.
Lets go back to me. Notice how it always does, I’m so self centered. I used to be an overachiever type A winner. To do this I drew boundries and made time to do what I needed to win. Fourtante for me I come from a large family who always tought me to be humble. For all my achivment it always felt great to know what I did boosted other people. Then that brain thing happened and I turned into a numb version of me. I forgot myself and did what everybody wanted. I was fighting a severe case of guilt for failing and thought if i gave everybody what they wanted they could look past me huge failure. I was wrong. The bigger doormat I turned into the less people respected me. Like the easy girl in high school.
Well during the last two weeks I have spent some time telling people no and making time for my goals. Well what do you know, the more I say no and do what I think is right the more I am and getting done and the more respect I am getting. Even saved my marriage by laying down a huge NO to my wife.
My point? I don’t have one! Just being narcissistic! Kidding. Training time for you and living your life does not make you a narcissist. As long as you do on to others ain’t nothing wrong with doing unto yourself. Just be a good person.
In closing Tom your friend is a fucking idiot.
I am pretty sure - that is not how that works. I am fairly certain within a reasonable limit of doubt that doing the underlined action above will results in sleeping on the couch.
I stumbled across this great book that puts it al in perspective. Jim Loehr trains athletes bodies AND minds. To parpahase a section I have recounted often…There are 24 hours in a day,… period. Lance armstrong does not have a magic rabbits foot he can rub to get 25 hours to cheat the rest of us! When you hear someone say “I don’t have time for …” it simply means " I value X, more highly than I value Y, so I choose to spend my time doing X until such time that I value Z more than X." I don’t rot in front of a tv for 2 hours each night because I value the time I get to think deeply about my day while swimming 2000 yards at the gym. I’m not self absorbed, I’m self actulallizing!
Karmalator
+1
Replacing the work “have” with “make” in the line “I don’t have time for…” opens up possibilities.
Lance Armstrong does not have a magic rabbits foot he can rub
HHhhhmmmmmmmm…
I think in general the social media revolution has given a ton of people across all walks of life an inflated sense of self.
I guess by definition I’m a narcissist. But I only hang out or try to show off to my other narcissist friends on group workouts or on Strava. Other than my wife, I don’t think most of the people I know have any idea how much swimming, biking or running I do on a weekly basis 
And I’m fine with that. In fact, I prefer it that way.
Ya - I don’t have any social media. Only snapchat - so I can send receive the nudy pics 
(life of a single young man)
Everyone on Insta is full of sh*t or full of themselves. I did enjoy the funny ones. BobMenery was a classic.
It also ruined women. Id scroll through and see the totally fake insta chicks and then go check out the real world and be REALLY let down haha so deleted it.