Some of you may be religious on here, some may hate religion and blame every war on it in the world today! Whatever your persuasion, here’s a good way to get your own brand of exercise religion into your life.
We have been over excuses before and how they disrupt your efforts to get into shape, or even start at all!!! Here’s a nice new tactic to make sure your plans are not thrown off course, and actually you start making some appointments with yourself!
A client of mine is quite religious and would never miss a workout with me, but would often miss my prescribed workouts. This was hurting his progress and although we would have fantastic workouts together, his fitness was not gettting to the level he wanted. I asked him one day what was the most important appointment he kept in his life, he said that’s easy “it was church”!
I then asked him if he treated his own workouts like his church appointments, what would happen? He replied that he would be in amazing shape! He then looked at me with those light bulb moments and discovered that he had been neglecting to spend time for himself, and soon promised to set up these “church” meetings in the week as well, and experienced more progress in the next 8 weeks, than he had in the previous 5 months!
Making time for yourself in often difficult, but what happens if you schedule it into your diary, like a dental appointment or a solicitor’s appointment? You wouldn’t miss those so pencil it in your diary now, there’s really no excuse for missing workouts, it may be getting up 30 minutes ealier, getting to bed earlier, missing a bit more television, or simply organising your time better!
Making time so you can have a healthier, higher quality of life can only take 30 minutes or less, make that promise to yourself that you are finally going to “do it” this time and nothing’s going to come in between your workout, no matter what!
Make sure you visit your own “church” this week, a few times!!
Keri
