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.
