Plenty has been lectured, spoken, and written about regarding the power of our thoughts. They can make or break us.\u00a0 I am going to add to the pile for this post.\u00a0 I believe it\u2019s important to express the baby step thinking which can catapult us to new levels of performance.<\/p>\n
I personally hate the feeling of not doing enough.\u00a0 Yes, it\u2019s a feeling.\u00a0 It can actually become a slow burn feeling of procrastination \u2013 thinking about it make me uncomfortable.\u00a0 I remember for years I felt this way regarding my physical health.\u00a0 The dreaded words of \u201cwork out\u201d haunted me.\u00a0 Here, I was a mom of young girls for several years \u2013 primarily because I decided to space the oldest and middle out by 5 years.\u00a0 The middle and the youngest are almost 3 years apart.\u00a0 This meant I was raising toddlers and infants for a while.\u00a0 My kids didn\u2019t sleep through the night, probably operator error on my part.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t always been the best at discipline.\u00a0 I played sports as a young girl, I participated on the high school jv-varsity basketball team, and the varsity gymnastics team.\u00a0 I have always enjoyed physical activity.\u00a0 However, I also enjoy my sleep.\u00a0 When the girls were young I made a decision to not let my mental state concerning lack of exercise turn negative and eat me alive while my girls were young.\u00a0 Did I add I have always worked full time in addition to raising my kids?\u00a0 I essentially took myself off the hook of expectation.\u00a0 It worked for years.\u00a0 Then the girls got bigger.<\/p>\n
Another motivating force in my life is getting older.\u00a0 Life looks different at 40 then it did at 26, 30, and 35.\u00a0 When 40 started to approach I realized the food wasn\u2019t burning off as fast anymore.\u00a0 Now, I still wasn\u2019t prepared to jump into the gym or working out.\u00a0 I was willing to start hot yoga.\u00a0 This is was the beginning, however even prior to I did something which eventually contributed to my overall disciplined workout routine I have today.\u00a0 You ready for it?\u00a0 The solution to all your work out issues!\u00a0 I started to think about working out.\u00a0 That\u2019s it.\u00a0 Just thinking about it.\u00a0 The idea of it.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t do this for long, only a brief moment, a small amount of willingness to someday workout.\u00a0 I did this for almost a year and half while I would attend a hot yoga now and then.\u00a0\u00a0 This was the beginning.<\/p>\n
Eventually, it took.\u00a0 I turned 40 in November.\u00a0 By the end of December, after Christmas I pulled the trigger.\u00a0 I pulled into the nearby gym and signed up my husband and myself.\u00a0 I also got a personal trainer \u2013 I figure why act like I know what I am doing at the gym, when I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t worked out in a gym for years, probably 20.\u00a0 I worked with him a \u00bd hour a week for a year.\u00a0 The results from the gym made me feel good, the food and diet followed.\u00a0 I\u2019m not perfect at it, but my eating style has drastically changed.<\/p>\n
Being a recovered addict and alcoholic, I tend to like anything not good for me.\u00a0 Ya know, sugar, grease, fast food, doritos, ice cream, etc..\u00a0 One by one they have been removed.\u00a0 Sometimes, nature does the trick because my body doesn\u2019t handle deep fry anymore \u2013 pain always is a motivator for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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