Bad decisions don’t often come when you are feeling calm and under no pressure at all, they always come when you are under most stress and you have a million things going on simultaneously.
If you have a couple of young kids, you have to work, you have to organise dinner, then eating the “perfect meal” is going to be impossible without any planning ahead and relying on convenience stores for your “on the go food”.
Trying to fit three exercise sessions in a week “if things go perfectly” sets you up to fail, the pressure of everyday life is likely to swamp you and it may be thursday or friday by the time you even get the chance to train.
How do we stay on course, how do we get things done no matter what?
We need to return to the moment of how we initially started our exercise programme. We made time for exercise no matter what. We made sure we first of all shopped for good healthy food first, then it was always in the house so there was no excuses. We need to ACT rather than react to a stressful day and preparation becomes vital.
We all have maps in our mind on how we should act, our own “manuals” on how we should do things yet we get swept away in everything.
Sometimes we need to take a breath, breathe deeply and get the control back or life will sweep us away into doing things.
Sometimes we need to reset ourselves, reset our mindsets to the time when we first started and get that organisation of our lives back. We fixed up 3 times a week training way back then, so why not now, truthfully why?
We always had healthy food in the house when we first started, why not now?
Our circumstances may not have changed dramatically, but sometimes many things we had as a priority (that are hugely beneficial to us) have now gone by the wayside.
This is the perfect time for a RESET and get back to the fundamentals that served us so well to begin with.
