Top 10 Fitness Commandments #1: Make and Keep a Decision to Change

In my last blog post, I described what I call my Top 10 Fitness Commandments. I also explained that in the following posts I would go into further detail about each one. In this post I will discuss more about the 1st Commandment, Make and Keep a decision to change.

I would like to reiterate what I wrote in the last post which is that health and fitness is not about creating the “perfect body” rather creating confidence, creating good habits, blocking out distractions, and loving the process of becoming fit and healthy. When we decide to go on the journey of health and fitness we are taking a physical, mental, and emotional journey. We may find ourselves frustrated and overwhelmed about what feels like a lack of progress. However, as we continued to make the micro daily decisions to pursue, we experience personal growth.

Making and keeping the decision to change who we are today allows for our tomorrow is a better version of yesterday. Making the decision to change helps provide focus to what we do, in any aspect of lives. Without making that decision, we end up aimlessly going day to day without a clear vision of what we want life to look like in the next month, 10 years, 20 years or even 70 years. The decision we make today, to be active and healthy, change a career, end a bad relationship, is very literally the decision that will impact us many years down the road. We absolutely cannot say, Oh I will worry about it later, because later, is simply just too late. The damage is done! That is when we go on lifesaving medications because our organs simply do not function as they once did. That is when the doctor steps in to tell us that the smoking we did for the last 50 years is why we need to be on supplemental oxygen for the rest our lives because we simply cannot breathe as we once did. Today will last our lifetime. Every day, we must make the decision to live a life of health, fitness, and wellness.

The decision you make today will set up the process. The process helps develop the habits. Those habits become ingrained. And what is ingrained is what you become. You become what you do!

Action Step:

Create a mantra for yourself and say something that will get the wheels rolling. When you repeat that statement out loud and hear it, do you find yourself taking small actions steps to live up to the mantra?