It’s the New Year – Are You Ready For a Fresh Start?
The New Year brings a new opportunity to commit to yourself, to rebuild your foundation, take the next step, and look forward to what’s ahead. But how ready are you?
The New Year brings a new opportunity to commit to yourself, to rebuild your foundation, take the next step, and look forward to what’s ahead. But how ready are you?
Everyone has those days when the gravitational pull of the sofa far exceeds the push to get up and move. Maybe you’re super busy right now. Or depressed. Or on a deadline you can’t miss.
Ah, we’re approaching the first month of the first year of the new decade. It’s the time of year for resolutions, goals, and intention-setting. Whatever you call it, it’s how you are stating to yourself, and those you share with, your vision for growth and change.
I’ve heard this before, haven’t you? How you do anything is how you do everything. It’s one of those general sayings that is susceptible to “yes, but…” rationalizations.
Humans need connection. As much as I crave the wild places where I find no other hikers or skiers and it’s just me, I was just reminded that’s not enough. Especially when we are living in such interesting times and our attention gets tugged in so many different directions for so many reasons.
If something in your environment isn’t serving you, you can change it. And when the environment in which you spend most of your time supports your goals, motivation becomes…irrelevant. You will have set yourself up to succeed every day and reaching your goals will become easier.
Motivation will come and go, goals will change over time (as will excuses). But what separates the people who achieve their goals for health and fitness and those who don’t are the healthy habits they adopted to match their unique lifestyle, one unglamorous and un-buzzworthy baby step at a time.
Even when you know what you need to do, the magic is really in the doing, and for that, there is no magic pill. No one can eat or move your body for you. So let’s look at some things that might be holding you back.
Did you ever just wish you could pop a pill and lose unwanted weight? Or drink a solution to help you build lean muscle fast? How much of this comes from confusion about what really works? Let’s be clear, there’s no mystery to what works, and you already know what that is.
When you don’t want to believe what the scale tells you, it’s frustrating! The number on the scale can be misleading for a number of reasons. Here are some considerations to keep in mind when you weigh yourself.
To reach any important goal you need to understand what is truly motivating you. For example, the deep and meaningful goal in weight loss is never about the weight, as in the number on a scale. It goes much deeper than that. When you can tap into that deep reason, your big ‘why’ will help you navigate well the challenges and obstacles that will inevitably arise.