Whether you are very optimistic today or you are a bit down and very pessimistic, it won’t really dictate the shape your’e going to be in right now, or indeed the rest of the year.
If you don’t exercise all week and don’t in general, you are unlikely to be in good physical condition no matter how optimistic you are.
If you eat mostly rubbish with only the occasional healthy meal in there, then there’s no way at all you will be in shape, no matter how much shouting and optimism you bring into your life. Being a good talker won’t guarantee you anything, its the “doing” that really matters and deep down you know that!!
Optimisim of course is a BIG help when you ARE training well and eating a good variety of healthy foods. Optimism then will give you all the momentum you need to continuously get better and better.
Optimism is quite a hard thing to pull off in the gloomiest period of the year and with all the bad news going on, so you’d better get used to practicing it and action better be the name of the game from now on!
Optimism can depend on the questions you’re likely to ask yourself. If you have a slight muscle pull that requires you to abstain from training for a couple of days or even a week, instead of getting down about it, see it as a nice little break to refresh yourself and that you will come back much stronger than ever. Breaks from training can be a good thing as long as they are handled properly.
Instead of having one bad meal right now and saying to yourself that your diet is blown, try and get the next meal right and get back in the saddle. A moment or experience in life will have the effect you let it have. No one bad meal should make you write off your week, that is just a weak excuse to get back on sugary and fatty foods that certainly taste nice, but will make you feel and look like a rubbish bin!!
Some people let certain experiences destroy their day, their week or even their life!!!
Its how you react to all of this that will make the difference ultimately. So let’s get used to getting up quickly from any setback and showing how well you can bounce back from anything!!!
