Here it is another January. The year’s keep flying by and what did you accomplish last year?
Did you make those little changes you kept talking about, or did you watch time slip away, all the while wishing and hoping something, somehow would change, if only…
If only you’d get up a half hour earlier, think of what could be done?
A quick early morning workout perhaps, or time for a real breakfast?
I eat breakfast every day, and have long credited that habit with being instrumental in getting me off the nighttime snacking habit and into the eating for health habit. If only I was consistent with my exercise – I was once in very fit shape and the secret? Regular, consistent exercise.
I once saw a TV program about a girl who’d lost a lot of weight and she’d done it by playing a video game called Dance, Dance, Revelation and it involves a vinyl platform on the floor in front of you with squares, X’s and Triangles, and by following the game you move your feet and/or arms in the direction indicated, effectively causing you to dance.
She danced away about 90 pounds before she even realized what was happening. Find something you enjoy and do it consistently, and it can work for you too.
If you’re like me, you start every January with the same hope and promise. This year it’s going to be different – this is going to be the year I (fill in the blank). This year my goal is to adopt a clean diet habit – the same eating style I used to create a healthy frame with 14% body fat many years ago. It wasn’t difficult but it took effort – effort to give up some of my less than healthy habits like eating junk food for instance.
I’d like to invite you along on my journey. I face the same issues as you, every day, but I have methods in my back pocket that I know work to overcome them, and the key: I put my methods into action.
Do you take action? Do you have methods that would work, if only (fill in the blank).
Strike “if only” from your vocabulary this year. Stop saying “if only” and instead say, “Now that I.”
- Now that I … get up earlier I can get more done.
- Now that I … eat a clean diet I feel so much better.
- Now that I … exercise every day.
- Now that I … make good choices.
- Now that I … give myself credit for small successes.
Get the idea? Join me in finding your way to put all your plans into action. Let’s make this a year to remember!
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