After 3 months off of exercise due to injury, I have been trying to get back at it and kick up my workouts.
And it has been difficult.
So to help kick start I hired a trainer. She ROCKS!
Everyday I get a text message from her saying, "Today Get moving. Think Strong. Do what you don't feel like doing!".....There is a reason I hired her to kick my ass...I totally agree with her :-)
Get up and get moving!
You either want "It" or you don't.
What is your "It"?
Everybody's "It" is different. You need some serious, dedicated "it" thought to get started.
My "It" is the whole package. My "It" is getting lean and eating healthy. I don't let my "It" go and allow circumstances to sway me from my goal. I want my "it" badly enough to do whatever it takes to be a lean, happy, healthy, disciplined and successful. I have set my personal bar high because being lean takes deliberate effort! I do what's necessary even if I don't love it all the time because I LOVE the end RESULT.
I'm not going to lie, sometimes I feel like sitting on the couch, I am human, BUT I get up and move my ass. Sometimes I feel like a fast food BUT I drive on past. Sometimes I'm dying for ice cream BUT I ignore it!!! I can't woo-woo around doing what I want all the time AND be healthy & lean. My "It" takes discipline!
I have made discipline and self-control a habit. It makes me happy. And when I scheme a way to have dessert for breakfast, I thrill at my cleverness. But I do compensate for the dessert somewhere throughout my day by taking time to exercise. I stay in balance. I keep my focus on leanness, health, and whole foods but I don't completely deny myself. That approach is my "It" that I'm willing to work for.
I think if I had to pick one thing that's the most important, it's consistency. My "it" needs a consistent nutrition plan, consistent workouts, consistent rejection of lazy self-sabotage thoughts. If you want your "It" you need to act like "It" the majority of the time and make "It" your lifestyle. Don't just try something for a week and then give up, and then try some conflicting thing and do it sorta so-so for a month, and then start to doubt that, and then go back to the first thing you did for a week that didn't really work. If you approach it that way, you're just drifting about, and most likely going backward.
Think for Today so you can Start Tomorrow:
• Decide what the "It" is in your life that you're willing to work for each and everyday.
• Design a plan on how you will get there and GO FOR IT every day!
• Design a plan on how you will get there and GO FOR IT every day!
• Pursue your "It" with focused intention.
Have a Happy and Healthy Day, Cheers:)