Don’t believe that? Try this on for size, you need to lose 30 pounds, you plan to get into an exercise program that will cause you to see this goal accomplished in three months’ time. You take the first step, you design, or have designed a program that you feel encouraged and enthused about.
First day or week you diligently go about your daily routine, which now includes the exercising routine, great stuff no problem, you are working out and feeling great. You get through the first week, now reality sets in, you wake up one morning and something supersedes your time schedule, you gather your flexibility and wrap it around this new interruption. By nightfall you realize you have not been able to rustle up the time to get into your routine, you head to bed with a great plan for tomorrow.
Tomorrow comes, you wake up late due to the stress filled night you spent trying to come up with time, rather than excuses, for your schedule change. The hours you must now devote to the interruption, become a repeated process of involvement. You know you were barely able to fit everything in before, now you have unexpected hours to include in your busy schedule, how to do it!
First things first, you find that the unfamiliar plan for an exercise regimen is the first to get squeezed a bit, before long, you may find yourself preparing for bed with the whisper of thought telling you that you are just too tired to hit the exercise mat before bed, crashing on the bed as you convince yourself this is your only option!
By now, you begin to see that you just cannot make it all happen as you had hoped when you began your program. There is still something inside that wants to exercise, something deep inside that tells you, you will be far better off, if you will continue to make time for the exercise regimen you started, only a few weeks prior.
You have now added more stress, less peace to your already confused state of living. I take the liberty to call it a confused state, because if you find yourself in this position, you are already aware of your need to settle the juggling act you perform just to get through the day.
This state of events requires time to get a handle on the schedule, time which you believe you do not have. I ask you however, if you have a heart attack, or any of many other health related issues, that take you out of your normal routine, for any number of days, what do you do? If it is serious enough, you may find yourself out of play for weeks, what then?
Then you look back on your schedule and know that if you desire to continue any type of schedule, you must include the time it takes to fit healthy living into your daily life’s accomplishments. Not so hard, really, it just takes “sticktoativity”, and awareness of what you might experience without this effort.
The fear of what will happen should you not become involved in your health is often enough motivation for one to start an exercise regimen, until that one begins to believe the lie that there are more important issues that demand the time allotted to continue in this healthy exercise regimen.
At this point, you need to look closely at the picture you are painting for your life. If you desire to have your dreams become reality, take account of how you deal with your daily life demands. Are you on a continuum of analyzing your time schedule in order to prioritize those things of greatest value to your dream goal?
Just as with the loss of the excess 30 lbs of weight, if you do not keep your focus on your highest priorities, you may drift into apathy before realizing the dreams that are within your grasp right now.
Keep your eye on the priority of your dream, see it, feel it, realize it! It is yours and no one else can stop you from achieving it, it is only your beliefs that will stop you!
Cheryl G Burke
http://cherylgburke.com/blog
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