Have you ever thought that you might need to quit your routine? How it might need a little make-over?
Summer sort of snuck up on me, and I didn’t have a specific plan set in place. Suddenly, it was here and moving on without me and I felt like I was running to catch up! With school out, the routine changed, and everything just went bonkers.
This is the perfect set up for fantastic bad excuses.
Excuses such as: “I’ll wait until school starts again,” “I didn’t have a plan,” “there’s just too much going on right now,” “I’ll wait for this new job to settle in”, etc. Before you know it, missing the gym is a thing, drinking more becomes a thing, eating excessive amounts of sugary treats is another thing, putting on weight, and covering up that summer body with fluff is also a thing. And all these things pile up and become an awful downward spiral that takes a lot more energy to fix than most of us want to put into it.
It’s time to quit this routine and start making legitimate, good excuses.
We all make excuses when we don’t really wanna do something. But… do you really want to fluff up? How do you really feel about your desire to get healthy and fit? Have you actually thought about whether or not you really want to be happy. What does that actually mean to you? What to you want?!
You are capable of following a routine that will change your life for the better and last a lifetime.
How many times do you think about starting a healthy routine (or habit) but make excuses because you just aren’t the routine type. Get out of that mindset. We’re all creatures of habit. We all follow some sort of routine.
What habits and routines could you replace that would get you closer to the vision you have of yourself in a year from now, or 5, 10 years from now?
Like I have talked about (briefly) before, setting goals that last means taking baby steps. Changing our daily routine is the same basic concept.
In ten years, your life will look exactly as it does today unless you take the first baby step in actively changing up that daily, stagnant routine.
It’s not having a routine that you’re not into; it’s changing the routine.
The best way to start changing the routine is to replace one thing you do regularly (drinking soda) and incorporate the new thing (water) into the routine you already have. Instead of changing everything at once, simply start with one thing at a time.
My goal with balance8life is to show you how to transform the bad routine into a good one. Before you know it, you’ll start to feel better and your health will improve. All it takes is that first step, but you have to take that first step and begin making good, legitimate excuses not to eat the wrong thing, not to stay up late, not to skip your exercise. These 8 methods work for me. They are 100% guaranteed to move you into a routine that will set you up for a healthy lifestyle.