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Story of Inspiration -Are you in control of your life? That seems like such an easy question to answer - of course. But maybe you really aren't - take a look and see: does work run your life, if you needed to get away, could you. Or maybe you are one that says, I'm in control, unless my significant other tells me otherwise.
Your personal determination will determine the improvements you make in your life. Encouragement from others is important, but you must take that first step - maybe it is just a small step, but it is a step.
When I first began triathlons, I had my sights set on a 70.3 half-ironman race. But this wasn't my first step. My first step was a sprint race - oh and when I finished I thought there was no way I would ever get to the next step - body completely worn out. Then I did my first Olympic distance race and even made it to the 70.3 race and now keep on racing.
So maybe your first step to have full control of your life won't be to completely stop smoking in one day or doing a hour long workout. But one less cigarete or ten minutes of physical activity a day might get you there in the end.
- The 110 pound weight loss
This is a story about Sharon, who has worked with me in different fitness capacities. Her story as she shares it, starts about 6 years ago where she weighed in at 270 pounds, or at least that is the last time she stepped on a scale to see what it was. After about a year of marriage and that new life, I was finding myself unhappy and even dissatisfied with myself. So I decided to try a new regime/diet. Like many people, I slacked off here and there and eventually dropped the entire workout/healthy eating scenario. Then after having a son, I needed to be healthy for myself, but I also had someone else depending on me to be healthy.
With this new found motivation, I started walking – That is all I could physically do at the time, but you have to start somewhere. I progressively added to the routine and even did the unthinkable of run. This continued for about a year, in which I took off about 70-75 pounds. This was great, but I wanted more for myself and added to my routine. I found out through trial and error that things have to be changed up every now and then or your body stays where it is at and the results you desire are no longer coming.
With this new found lifestyle, I managed to drop about 100-110 pounds and gain a more positive outlook on life. With all of the changes that I made to my outer appearance, I made many to my inner self too. I feel that loosing the weight was a stepping stone, a very steep stepping stone, which allowed me to venture out into a foreign location, the “healthy world” and discover a new life. In my new life, I have done many of the unthinkable from becoming a certified aerobics instructor to completing a marathon and 2 half marathons.
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- Exercise & Vacation-Do they mix
Wow it is already summer - trips are happening, work related, vacation related and much more. All of these activities alter the normal daily routine. This last week I was on a vacation at a camp and I realized how hard it can be to workout unless it is planned in advance. My days were full go all day from 6:30am until almost 11pm. Within that it would have been very easy for me to forego exercise at all.
Instead, exercise was made a priority for me. I started with a plan and stuck to it. I made sure that I brought the things with me that I needed to exercise - which can be anything from empty milk jugs you can fill with water for dumbbells, to a exercise ball that you inflate, to exercise bands - they all fit easily into a bag and can be taken anywhere.
Then I made sure I had a time each day set aside for that exercise. It could have been easy to forego the exercise, but instead use these crazy summer months to explore new ways to exercise.
- Turning Goals into Habits
Once that you decide that change is going to be a part of your life, how do you stick with it? We have all heard that you should create a goal, write it down, break it into small steps and have benchmarks. But these are still all things that are not common part of our lives.
So instead we must change our thinking from goals to habits. Habits take such a stronghold in our lives and often are reason why we need goals. While habits can often be thought of in a negative light, they are still strong influences on our lives and thus the thought mind needs to be changed to a positive thought.
It has already been established that change can take you a lot of places, now just think of where you can go if change is a part of your daily life. It all starts with what you believe YOU can do.
- Where does 1 degree take you?
I mentioned that one degree doesn't seem like a lot of difference in the short run, but in the long run it really adds up. Well when you really start looking at it in a mathematical format - it really adds up. Just think if you bought paper that didn't have 90 degree corner, maybe it was 89 degrees - in one direction on an everage sheet of paper that 8 inch side, you might not notice the difference, but then on the longer side, the 11 inch side, it might be more noticeable because it goes out a longer distance.
Or think on a basketball court, the baseline you might not notice, but if a line is off by one degree on the sideline and goes the entire length of the court, you just might notice a whole lot more. So how far of a change will your one degree of change take you - can you stand to wait and see...
It just takes one small change today...
Then tomorrow it gets easier and easier to do
- Getting what you've never had...
Sam Parker and Mac Anderson share a quote in their short movie 212 degrees of "To get what we've never had we must do what we've never done." But this can be a very difficult thing to embark upon - to think that we must change so many things in our lives to make this humongous change.
So sometimes it is easier to just make a smaller, maybe one degree change to eventually get to that big change. While a one degree change doesn't seem like a very big difference in the short run, it eventually can add up to a big change in the long run and do things you may of never heard of. Maybe your one degree change is taking one coke out of your diet a day. While it is just one coke a day, that adds up to 7 cokes a week and eventually 365 a year. Or maybe an apple a day, one more minute of exercise a day...
So what will your one degree of change be?
It doesn't take much...
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5. Do something - anything
Don't overanalyze what you should do, just do something, anything. Walk the mall or park, a few crunches or pushups during commercials - get creative too, maybe something like playing a game of frisbee and chasing it rather than playing catch.
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