I usually go for a walk after I finish dinner. It helps with digestion and makes me not feel like a total slob after I house 3 bowls of udon noodles. But it was raining tonight. Instead, I did a couple sets of squats and lunges. Problem-solving people.
If you want to look good, and above all feel better, you have to treat fitness like a requirement. That means NO excuses. If you tell yourself you are going to workout in the morning, when that alarm clock goes off, as much as it is going to pain you to leave the supreme comfort of your mattress and covers, do it anyways. One of the many reasons why people fail to meet their goals when first starting off is simply because they break promises to themselves.
When you consistently tell yourself you’re going to start doing something, whether its exercise or learning a new language, and then you don’t follow through, you are consciously telling yourself that you don’t have the time to invest in YOU. Which at the end of the day, is all you really have. You get used to the feeling of being average, not wanting to strive for higher goals because you’re fine just the way you are. You never amount to anything greater, even though you know in your heart of hearts that you can be so much more. And the more you put shit off, the more you live in regret. A decade goes by and you have accomplished nothing. That is the danger of breaking promises to yourself.
I challenge you to keep the promises to yourself. Start off small. It could be something like ‘I won’t hit the snooze button at all this week.’ Giving yourself smaller timeframes puts less pressure on yourself, as opposed to setting year long, strenuous feats that are simply too much for your brain to wrap its head around. It’s unrealistic. Start. Small. I’m telling you, it works wonders. From there, as you start to build more confidence in your abilities and commitment to yourself, you start to set bigger goals. And bigger, and bigger, and then, before you know it, you have far surpassed the person you used to be, all through consistency.
PJ 