Your Ideal Form

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Motivational Monday

Reaching Your Goal Weight is 100% Possible

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The thing about reaching your goal weight is that it's 100% possible. It's completely in your control. The only thing stopping you from getting there is you. So get out of your own way.

You CAN reach your goal. Even if you have a big, huge, hairy, audacious goal. You can get there! It won’t necessarily be easy though. You’re going to have to want it. Bad. You’re going to have to make your goal a top priority. You may have to give something up. But more than likely, you will gain so much more! Health, confidence, even a new zeal for life. Set aside the excuses and you will succeed.

The thing about reaching your goal weight (whether that’s on the scale or on the bar!) is that it’s 100% possible. It’s completely in your control. The only thing stopping you from getting there is you. So get out of your own way.

Don’t Give Up Because of One Setback!

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Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.

Sometimes, it can be tough to recover when we mess up. You kinda want to just throw in the towel and say “screw it” for the rest of the day/week/month/year. But a mistake isn’t the end of the world, and it’s certainly not a reason to give up. You don’t need to wait for a whole new day/week/month/year to get back on track. You can work on getting back on track immediately. Drinking some water is always a great, easy first step.

Remember, don’t get greedy. It’s great to shoot for perfection, but don’t let it become the enemy of the good. Just because you won’t have a perfect day, doesn’t mean it still can’t be a good day, or even a great day. Small progress is still progress! Getting over your setback and taking one small step in the right direction is still one step closer to reaching your goals.

Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.

Choice, Chance, Change

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The three Cs in life- Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, to take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.

Getting to your ideal form starts with making a choice. You have to choose to put in the effort necessary to reach your goals. The next part is the hardest: taking a chance. This is where you leave your comfort zone and strike out, trying new things, seeing what works, what doesn’t and risking opening yourself up to the criticisms and judgement of others. But in the end, the change within you is absolutely worth it! And while the outer changes are fantastic, it’s those inner changes, those changes in mentality that are where the true transformation happens.

The three Cs in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, to take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.

Would You Rather Make Progress or Excuses?

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making progress is more important than making excuses

Time is inexorable, marching along, bringing with it new experiences and surprises. As much as we might like, we can’t pause it to get a break or get more of it somehow. We also can’t speed it up to get through a trying time faster. Life will keep on happening, and with it, good days and bad, difficult times and wonderful ones. Too often, we live for some point in the future. Next weekend. Next payday. Next month. I’ll start next Monday. Once X is over, I’ll be able to do Y. The problem is that once X is over, Z happens, and Y gets pushed back yet again. Don’t put your health on hold waiting for some perfect time, because there never will be a perfect time.

For some of us, it’s about perfectionism. We want everything to be perfect. But what we’re really doing is being greedy. I could go do a shortened version of my workout today, or, I could wait until tomorrow to be able to do the whole thing and get all the benefits of doing the entire workout. So I wait, and then tomorrow something else comes up and I end up not doing a workout again. Or, if I can’t be perfect with following my diet today, I’m just not going to try, because I want my efforts to be maximized as much as possible.

Little bits of progress here and there DO add up! Consistency is the key to success. While you are still waiting to find an easy way or a perfect time, someone else is already getting results because they decided making progress is more important than making excuses.

You DO Have the Time

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-I don't have time- is the grown-up version of -The dog ate my homework-.

“I don’t have time” is the grown-up version of “The dog ate my homework”. It’s a BS excuse. Everyone has the same number of hours in each day. It’s all about priorities. Here’s a little pen and paper exercise for you: go through your day yesterday (for bonus points do this for multiple days) and write down how you spent each half hour. Sleeping, getting ready for work, working, eating, commuting… write each half hour down. Are there blocks where you don’t remember what you did? How much time was spent in front of a screen when you weren’t doing work?

This isn’t about abolishing fun, far from it. But many of us do have the time, we have just chosen to do other things with it. If that was a conscious choice, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with that! But far too often, we turn on our phone to check what the latest notification is, and  15 minutes later we’re still scrolling through a social media feed.

Maybe after doing the exercise above, you can honestly say that you know how you spent every minute of every day and none of it was wasted. Remember that it is a result of the choices you have made. And life is hard, I get that. A choice you may have made years ago might still be causing repercussions now. Choosing to go to college immediately after high school vs. waiting a year and working for a year first will put people in very different financial situations 5 years down the road. But you can’t go back and change the past. You can only make the most of TODAY.

Whether you choose to prioritize time with your family, your financial security, or your health, it is up to you. Just remember that instead of saying “I don’t have time”, what you really should be saying is “that’s not a priority for me right now.”

Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping

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Because the next few months will go by whether or not you work out. Make them count.

The next few months will go by no matter whether or not you workout. Those months will pass no matter whether or not you eat right. Where do you want to be in three months? Six months? A year? Do you want to be in the exact same place, feeling unhappy with your body? Or would you rather be more confident in your own skin?

Because the next few months will go by no matter what. Make them count.