Be Inspired To Take Action On Your Health & Fitness Goals This Year Do you know what Inspires You To Keep Taking Action On Your Health & Fitness Goals? A survey once showed that the number 1 resolution that most people make on New Year’s Day is to lose weight or get fit. The survey also went on to show that this very same resolution was the one most often broken by the end of January or February. Today we would like to share with you Simple Ideas To Inspire You To Take Action On Your Health & Fitness Goals This Year? • Why do people quit on themselves so soon after getting started on their goals? • So why are people not able to keep at it? • Where did the initial excitement go? • Why have they wasted money on an expensive gym membership but stopped going? The answer is to find your inspiration. Many think that they require motivation to stay on track when in fact they must be inspired from within to achieve the health and fitness goals they say they want to achieve. Think about something you started. In the beginning, there is the initial excitement of starting something new, right? The future seems happy with a healthy, toned and energized body. However, after a few weeks it seems that the excitement dies down, and people realize that results are not coming fast, they get frustrated, they lose interest, and it all becomes mundane and even unpleasant. There is a different approach to reaching your desired goals. I have listed a few ways to help you find your inspiration to keep on keeping on. When the going gets tough, these tips will keep you going. When you don’t see the results as fast as you want, these methods will give you the patience and persistence to forge ahead. Write down WHY you want to lose weight, get fit, build muscle, get, and stay healthy etc. • Define YOUR strong WHY. • Keep asking why until you get to the real truth. • Why do you want to get fit? • Because you want to feel better and lose weight Why? • So, you look good, have more self-confidence and have more energy? • Why must you look good and have more energy? • So, your self-confidence improves because you look good, and you feel your body is vital and energized. That is the why. • To feel amazing mind, body and spirit. • To realize an improved self-confidence. • To feel energized each day. • Have the courage to keep digging till you get to the truth. We have written about finding your WHY many times here on our blog. Check out our blog post - Implement The 5 WHYS Method as your guide to gaining your inspiration in reaching your health and fitness goals this year here - https://wendybottrell.weebly.com/blog/implement-the-5-whys-method-to-energize-your-best-life Find a training partner so that each of you can encourage each other when one of you is down. This is how I began exercising years ago. A friend and I joined a gym together. We had a plan that we would work out together and we did that for over 2 years. It was an amazing experience for me for so many reasons, we had a lot of fun, and I was able to change my body from being 100 lbs. overweight to being in the best shape of my life at that time. Do NOT stop. Don’t Quit On Yourself No Matter What. If your schedule was very busy on a certain day and you do not have time for a one-hour workout, do not just skip it and feel guilty. Do a quick 10 minutes of push-ups and squats. Or maybe skipping for 15 minutes. A quick workout that leaves you gasping for air. It will make you feel better and more energized but more importantly you will feel inspired because you did not quit. Recognizing when you ate something that wasn’t in your plan but carrying on. Many people get sidetracked on their diets and once they do, they just give up on it and eat whatever they want. Understand that this happens to all of us once in a while but it’s not over. Tell yourself that it’s ok and be sure that you enjoyed every single bite at that moment. Just because you gave in to temptation at the moment and had a slice of pizza does not mean you should finish the whole pizza. Tomorrow is a new day, and you have the opportunity to begin again with your plan. Keep your workouts exciting. My plan includes walking, running, sprinting, mini-trampoline jumping, lifting free weights, kettlebell training and stretching. There is variety every day. Do not let your training become monotonous and predictable. This is extremely uninspiring, to say the least. Find those things that you love to do whether it is weight training, dancing, yoga, or martial arts. Do that and you will be inspired each and every time you exercise. Listen to music while training. It beats listening to your panting and gasping. Change your music often too. Music that is upbeat, catchy and with fast beats. All of us go through periods when we are feeling down or just not in the mood. It is perfectly normal. The key point to note is that if you’re not in the mood for a long workout, just do a short one. Or simply get out for a walk out in nature to rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit on that day. Never stop and never give up. Read your “why” that you wrote before, whenever you just feel like quitting. Remember your “why”, and then get back on track. I had a mentor once tell me it is OK to quit for today, just be sure to wake up tomorrow and take action toward your goal keeping in mind you WHY in helping guide and inspire you to your success. What inspires you to keep going? I will share with you that it was my WHY that I created in 1999 that has kept me going all these years. I saw my mother break her hip and was in need of a full hip replacement. At that time I was about 100 lbs. overweight and I just knew if I didn’t make positive changes in my life at that time I would be my mother in twenty years. The next day I borrowed a friend's Tai Bow video and struggled to do a short exercise video. Over the next many months I was able to get through an entire video and moved on to going to the local community centre to get a gym membership. It has now been 23 years; I am in better health and fitness than I was at that time. The changes I made did not happen overnight. Yet I took it one step at a time and used my WHY as my inspiration to succeed at my goals. You can do the same. Begin with finding WHY and take action today. I have heard it said that Health is the New Wealth. Find your WHY today and begin the journey to your new wealth of health and fitness. It may be a challenging path and I know for certain each and every moment is worth it. We invite you to use these Simple Ideas To Inspire You To Take Action On Your Health & Fitness Goals This Year? Be sure to get in touch with us if you have any questions or if we can help you. Join me on the journey here: Subscribe to our newsletter here Leave a comment below and be sure to let us know how we can support you! Join our FREE Walking Challenge here Get in touch with us if you have questions or if we can help you. What we know for sure is that walking is the link to living a healthy and vibrant life. We believe walking inspires the mind, activates the body, and nourishes the soul. 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