Listen up, people!
Attainable goals! Immediate goals, separate from your chief aim. What does this mean?
If you, say, planning to incorporate exercise into your life and become fitter by dropping 25 lbs, and learn to love something about workouts than your long term goal is going to be lifetime fitness and your immediate goal is weight loss. Not the whole 25 lbs, maybe 5lbs a month, consistently for 5 months. In the process, you will HAVE TO make exercise a routine and it’s hard to do without enjoying it (at first, it’ll just have to be a scheduled priority), but in the duration of those 5 months (in about 3, actually), if you really are consistent, it will become part of your life and something you can sustain in the long term. Hopefully by then you have found the fulfillment and joy that comes with having the power to change your body, your appearance, your daily attitude, your energy level, your sleep pattern and the way you feel about exercise and fitness in general. Hopefully by then you have realized that since fitness is becoming, or has become YOU, you have also become an inspiration to everyone around you, directly or indirectly, and now you have the duty to spread the knowledge and give a little push in the right direction to those who are still stumbling in the dark.
What goes around comes around. Sometimes in a great big circle, but it does. It's the rule of nature. So remember how you once needed a little push and now that you are taking great big leaps slow down, and push someone else along. (Or out of the way, if they cannot be helped)
By the way, I don't think it's inspiration that most are lacking, it's simply heart and self respect. ‘Don't got it’...and so there will be casualties. There will ALWAYS be casualties...
IS THAT YOUR CHIEF AIM?
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
goals
Saturday, February 16, 2008
why keep trying?
When you've been working toward a certain goal, when you've been making sacrifices and have been disciplined, when you've been depriving yourself from things you'd normally enjoy, and when you've been plugging away believing that your efforts are going to bring the results you've been working towards and it just doesn't happen and nothing changes - what do you do then? When is it enough and when is it too much? Will you go the distance? Yes, what IS the distance, does anyone know, really?
It is by your own measure, whatever you are willing to commit to, whatever you are willing to give up, and however much you want to get that result of what you're seeking. It's a funny thing really; not at all like, say, school. We know exactly what must be done and for how long it will go on, in order to get that result, to get the completion certificate and the benefits that immediately follow.
But what about training and fitness, weight loss goals? If the goal is attainable and your obstacles are properly and honestly identified and hard work and research is put forth then how long before you say "I am not seeing results, I will either quit or change something"? How long before you'll just say "I quit!"? Should you ever say that? I think perhaps, yes! But I am speaking to those who all short identifying the problem, remember? I've mentioned this several times in previous rants, the problem, the real monster, not the shadow on the wall! For instance, if you have an eating addiction/disorder your problem is not how to burn more calories or build muscle, your problem is how to stop the destructive behavior that spoils all your efforts and sits on your head like an ugly tiara!
I will speak now to those who have been restricting their diet, making better choices and eating less in general, the ones who have been working out with a trainer and working out diligently, and the ones who just work out and work, and go to classes and for long walks and spend endless hours every week trying to bring about a change and it's just not happening! When do you say "I've had it, this is not working and I might as well enjoy my life and continue my comfortable lifestyle I've had before!" Save the time and save the money, just live it up, get lazy, gorge yourself, drink your wine every night - calories? What's that? I skipped dessert for lunch today, isn't that enough?
Well, don't give up, first of all! Do NOT give up! Chances are, even if you're not doing things right, you are doing SOMETHING right and changing your lifestyle for the better. What you may not be doing at all here is the 'being honest' part. Being honest with yourself. When I hear from a client how she has been eating her tiiiiiiiny calories and drinking lots of water and sleeping well, staying away from sugar and working with me and the weight is just not coming off! Do I say "I give up!" Do I question my knowledge as a trainer/coach/mentor and say "I failed"? NO! I don't point fingers either. I think... and listen. And change things up. Something is liable to trigger the much sought after change, or give away the much hidden truth. There is always truth. Don't tell me or admit it to yourself, but it's there, and the reason for "our" failure might be hidden beyond my abilities to extract and destroy it.
Because that is my new job description, I've decided, is to destroy the enemy! I will train my clients to take out their enemy that is keeping them from getting over that hill, the hill that separates home base from hostile lands, serenity from turmoil, peace from war, within, and inside each one of us. Identify your enemy.
Deep… I’m definitely missing my wine…pfooooh!
It is by your own measure, whatever you are willing to commit to, whatever you are willing to give up, and however much you want to get that result of what you're seeking. It's a funny thing really; not at all like, say, school. We know exactly what must be done and for how long it will go on, in order to get that result, to get the completion certificate and the benefits that immediately follow.
But what about training and fitness, weight loss goals? If the goal is attainable and your obstacles are properly and honestly identified and hard work and research is put forth then how long before you say "I am not seeing results, I will either quit or change something"? How long before you'll just say "I quit!"? Should you ever say that? I think perhaps, yes! But I am speaking to those who all short identifying the problem, remember? I've mentioned this several times in previous rants, the problem, the real monster, not the shadow on the wall! For instance, if you have an eating addiction/disorder your problem is not how to burn more calories or build muscle, your problem is how to stop the destructive behavior that spoils all your efforts and sits on your head like an ugly tiara!
I will speak now to those who have been restricting their diet, making better choices and eating less in general, the ones who have been working out with a trainer and working out diligently, and the ones who just work out and work, and go to classes and for long walks and spend endless hours every week trying to bring about a change and it's just not happening! When do you say "I've had it, this is not working and I might as well enjoy my life and continue my comfortable lifestyle I've had before!" Save the time and save the money, just live it up, get lazy, gorge yourself, drink your wine every night - calories? What's that? I skipped dessert for lunch today, isn't that enough?
Well, don't give up, first of all! Do NOT give up! Chances are, even if you're not doing things right, you are doing SOMETHING right and changing your lifestyle for the better. What you may not be doing at all here is the 'being honest' part. Being honest with yourself. When I hear from a client how she has been eating her tiiiiiiiny calories and drinking lots of water and sleeping well, staying away from sugar and working with me and the weight is just not coming off! Do I say "I give up!" Do I question my knowledge as a trainer/coach/mentor and say "I failed"? NO! I don't point fingers either. I think... and listen. And change things up. Something is liable to trigger the much sought after change, or give away the much hidden truth. There is always truth. Don't tell me or admit it to yourself, but it's there, and the reason for "our" failure might be hidden beyond my abilities to extract and destroy it.
Because that is my new job description, I've decided, is to destroy the enemy! I will train my clients to take out their enemy that is keeping them from getting over that hill, the hill that separates home base from hostile lands, serenity from turmoil, peace from war, within, and inside each one of us. Identify your enemy.
Deep… I’m definitely missing my wine…pfooooh!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
inconsistent
How difficult it is to manage EVERYTHING when one becomes too busy to sleep...
I had become too busy to smile. And I drive with my music off so I can utilize that time and THINK. I see my husband to tell him when I'm NOT gonna be home and to kiss him goodnight. I walk my moapy doggie at the crack of dawn, while eating my breakfast on the street - that's our quality time.
I have no idea why I started this post now, I suppose to make some kind of a mark and reclaim my active status. So there. The sad thing is; I don't actually have anything to write about, except that life is grand and I hope you are not too busy living it!
I had become too busy to smile. And I drive with my music off so I can utilize that time and THINK. I see my husband to tell him when I'm NOT gonna be home and to kiss him goodnight. I walk my moapy doggie at the crack of dawn, while eating my breakfast on the street - that's our quality time.
I don't study anymore, just go to school and hope for a B (or a C). I have reminders for everything on my phone, emails, alerts, task lists... what for?
And I still have all of my wonderful plans and ideas and also want to get into seriously training to run seriously fast. Seriously...I have no idea why I started this post now, I suppose to make some kind of a mark and reclaim my active status. So there. The sad thing is; I don't actually have anything to write about, except that life is grand and I hope you are not too busy living it!
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