Too often I hear people saying "hopefully I'll be able to stick to my clean eating", or "I really hope to make it to the gym today"... Well, to quote Dionne Warwick: "wishing and hoping and thinking and praying, planning and dreaming each night of his charms, that won't get you into his arms"... She goes on to say that you've gotta actually take action to get that man ("All you got to do is hold him and kiss him and love him and show him that you care") in other words - JUST DO IT girl!!!
Ok, now that we have our love-lives sorted out, let's think about how this can help us with our fitness and health goals...
Whenever a student, friend, family member, or even when I hear myself say they hope to do something (usually challenging), I really do want to believe them (or me), but that hope word often makes me leery! Hope to me often means no action. If you walk into a pub just HOPING not to order the nachos and beer or you only HOPE to make it out to that boot camp class, it's often not gonna happen! I don't mean to be negative, but I really believe you need to be more proactive than just hoping if you want awesome results! You need to take charge and make things happen, not just hope for them! If you really want to stay clean at that pub, you make up your mind before you walk in there that you will order a grilled chicken breast with veggies, not nachos - no options! Or, you wanna get a workout in - don't think I hope I have time for that sometime today - schedule it in like you would an important business meeting and don't let yourself down by postponing that workout for another time when you think you're gonna have more time, energy, etc. - do not give yourself the option to wimp out! Change I hope to I WILL!
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