Category: motivation

Right in the middle of January and the cold hard reality of where your health is. How would your report card on your health look? And how much is it costing you in all areas of your life if you aren’t giving it the proper attention?

If you don’t eat right, your body will eventually shows cracks, your immune system will show more weakness than it used to, you will be back and forth to the doctor’s more often and even the hospital more. Every cold and flu will knock you over easier than it used to, and your recovery will be slow and up and down.

Papering over the cracks doesn’t work either, eat well for a couple of days is far less effective than changing your lifestyle for now and the future, and deciding to live a healthier life-for the rest of your life because you know it will pay off big time.

You will find out the hard way that having a few takeaways a week regularly will hurt your health, it will be tough on your body drinking a few days a week lowering your immune system drastically, hard choices need to be not only in January but balance must be achieved the rest of your life, moderation works over the long term.

On the other hand, if you are down the gym most days, you will know what resilience is all about, you won’t care about how wet and cold it is, and you will thrive with your health because day in day out, you are putting the big shifts in and your health is being rewarded continuously with high energy, huge positivity and an ability to do anything you want in your life, and nothing will stop you because your health threatens to curtail your choices in every day life.

Your health report card can be great, and your consistent efforts on all fronts will be the deciding factor.

Great to see so many of you recovering from the flu/colds/whatever has been going around, and some of you are still struggling with it.

That feeling of illness, low or no energy is highly discouraging just as you want to get going this year.

What you can do though is do everything you can do to get better and feel better, because anyone would swap feeling ill with feeling fantastic.

If you have fresh and natural foods in your house, you will be on the road to recovery, and only enhancing your energy levels and crushing the germs within you that are making you feel so rough. Don’t forget those same foods will help your immune system protect you from future viruses/flu’s etc, even more reason for a complete lifestyle change for the future too.

You may not feel like drinking much water, but dehydration will drag out your cold, crush your energy levels, and kill your enthusiasm for anything, and definitely slow down your recovery. 

Drinking more water will pull you through this rough time, and remind you how important water is to daily performance levels when you exercise and for general life.

You recover when you rest, so give your body a chance to rest by getting to bed early, this applies if you are ill or not, sleep is medicine and will heal your body better than any tablets or pills, proper sleep will make you perform at a high level, missing out on sleep is proven to be harmful over time, and when it’s all about you feel good and at your best right now, put sleep at the top of your list of priorities. 

Good habits not only boost your health, but will pull you out of a hole when you feel sick and will do anything to get back to normal.

Your path is different to everyone else, so don’t make the mistake of comparing yourself to others all the time.

Your rate of progress will be different to others, but what I am certain of is that if you keep showing up at least 3 times a week, if you eat healthy 80% of the time and if you get to bed early most of the time, then you WILL be in very good health.

Always keep looking forward and never look backwards regretting what’s gone in the past, what’s happened has happened, and only good things will happen in your future if you keep on putting the work in, keep showing up and surrounding yourself with encouraging and positive people.

It’s monday again and a perfect time to turn the page and for you to write the next exciting chapter in your life story, it won’t happen by accident though, so keep showing up and having a go, however hard that may be sometimes even walking through the door.

Failing is an essential part of learning and growing, especially at the gym, and failure is a much needed process we all need at times in life. If  yo are having a go in life, trust me you will fail a lot!!!

Any kind of new challenge has a high failure rate, simply because it’s all new and new skills are needed to overcome each exercise.

The second time you will get better at it, and by the third try, you will wonder why you worried about it in the first place.

You ALWAYS win though every time you walk through the door (which is often the hardest part).

Every time you walk through the door, it’s proven by multiple studies that you mental health receives a massive boost.

Every time you show up the very fact you are surrounded by positive, uplifting people, you will experience a sense of wellbeing like nothing else.

Those who simply show up and keep having a go, are massive WINNERS to me, no matter how bad a day they are having, even if they are having a low energy day with a ton of bad stressful stuff on their mind, to me they are incredible and amazingly brave because they are giving themselves the BEST medicine to get through the rough patch they maybe going through in their lives.

If you are struggling with confidence (and judging by the many messages I get daily, quite a lot of you are), then you need a lot of help to be the person you USED to be and the person you NEED to be right now for all sorts of reasons.

Getting back to a time when you felt in control of most things in your life, you had great health, you felt great mentally, emotionally, the whole thing may seem like a while off the way you feel right now, and taking the steps to get back there may seem daunting, scary and even beyond you (in your head) at the moment.

BUT sometimes, it’s good to hit rock bottom and decide “enough is enough”, and you aren’t going to take a poor level of health anymore, physically and mentally.

Struggling in life, being out of breath when you exert yourself is a place NOBODY wants to be, but you know there is a way out, a better way to live and feel and finally be out of pain that may have threatened to take over your body.

Without your health, you cannot do the things you need to get done. Without everyday energy, you won’t have the get up and go to have a go at things you really want to achieve in life. If you are worrying about your health, everyday colds and flu will have a much bigger impact on you than everyone else, and your recovery will be much slower and often more complicated  too due to the other ailments you may have, and from not changing your lifestyle earlier despite many warnings maybe.

There has never been a better time to get your self-esteem and self-confidence up by moving more and exercising most days, getting fresh air every day and eating much healthier, and being around a lot more positive people.

All of this boosts your immune system hugely and helps you avoid a lot of illness, even if you do pick up colds and flus like many do at the moment, it means you will recover quicker and you can finally concentrate on what’s really important in life again.

Never forget your health is true wealth, and with it you have a thousand dreams, without it, you only have just one-to regain your health again.

It all starts with you deciding to change and taking action every day to create  a far more positive future for yourself and those closest to you.