Author: Keri McKibbin

They say life is a series of choices, but what are yours looking like today?

What we end up doing has a direct effect on how everything is going to turn out for us, and there’s no point ducking those decisions because the more we put choices off, the more we are going to drift away from what we really want.

We all want a certain kind of life, but do our choices make us end up with more of what we want or less?

For example, if you don’t eat healthy every day, then you’re going to struggle with energy, which is vital because you’re not going to get anything without it, and the bigger list of things you want requires an even bigger amount of energy to get it done.

Your choices all have an impact, do you realise what impact they are having?

Hitting a good exercise session will change the way you think, and make you usually a much more positive and energetic person. Plan this into your life at least 3 times a week and life will usually turn out far more positively in all ways.

We all have 168 hours a week, but if you are fitter you will want to accomplish far more during that time. The more you do, the more it impacts everyone in your life in a good way and your life will accelerate in a very good direction.

Realise the impact every choice you make has on your life and those immediately around you. What can you do right now to make better choices so your future becomes even brighter? Or what can you eliminate out of your life that is holding you back?

It’s what we do today that makes tomorrow so much more exciting and worth looking forward to. Choose wisely and live by those decisions.

So you have a great opportunity to get fit and healthy, to turn your life around, and you start and things go well, and recognise that being fit starts making you into a different person, much more dynamic and your hopes and aspirations start to go up again.

Then the crucial stage starts form many. Although you do well, start feeling better, you no longer put your exercise as a high priority in your life.

Other things become more important, and you forget that the most powerful and helpful you can be in all areas of your life is when you are fit and healthy.

Getting fit and healthy is one of the most selfless things you will ever do, because you will automatically do more things and likely help others due to the increased zest and drive in your life.

When you have more energy, you can do more things, when you are healthy you are more positive. It’s easy to put others in front of yourself though, and let others talk you out of getting fit and healthy.

Nobody likes being told they are making excuses, nobody likes being told they aren’t trying hard enough to fit exercise into their lives, but it’s often true and their initial good intentions can disappear quickly. Please don’t talk yourself out of doing great things, don’t talk yourself out of a better future.

There’s nothing worse than a conversation you have with someone telling you “they exercised and did really well at it, but ‘life’ got in the way and maybe ‘someday’ they will have a go again”.

We all only have so many years, months, weeks left and taking action right now means that the future is likely to be a higher quality of life, don’t get to 60, 70 years of age wishing you’d starting earlier, and you’d reaped the rewards of exercise would have brought you in terms of being pain-free, much more energetic, and the opportunity to help those closest to you.

I see many, many individuals with us battling real adversity every day, but still fit in exercise 3 times a week because they want better lives. Prioritise your health again, and the rest will fall into place from there.