Holiday Domination

With Thanksgiving just past, THE HOLIDAY SEASON has officially begun.

This is normally a time when people give in to the busyness of the season - real or perceived, and put off training the body and mind and eating like an adult until after the New Year - when things calm down to a more routine pace.

This is weak, plain and simple.

You need to manage your life - regardless of what's happening around you.

Waiting for the New Year to start improving yourself is, literally, insane.

If you're unhappy or unsatisfied with any aspect of yourself, why would you put off taking steps to change?
A.) Laziness
B.) Fear
C.) Apathy
D.) Inertia of the status quo

I can't help you if your answer falls in one the first three.

No one can.

If that's you, and you're not satisfied with where you are, then you need to change your attitude and thought pattern.

If, on the other hand, the inertia of the same routine and expectation is what keeps you from taking action toward bettering yourself, let me offer you some clarity.

Most people who are not already involved in some disciplined form of training, eating, and living will gain around 5-10 lbs over the holidays.

The extra weight gain (which they'll struggle to lose in the New Year), along with the absence of a sense of control will cause a low level of guilt, frustration, and disappointment without having any  counter in their life to offset it.

The conditioned response - once the holidays are over - is to jump at the easiest and least expensive fitness and weight loss option promising the fastest results.

Most of these resolution exercisers will fail and drop out of whatever they're doing within the first 2-3 months.

Many who last beyond that will start to trail off as the weather turns warmer and Spring turns to Summer.

These people will remain trapped in this cycle of mediocrity - never seeing any real or lasting change to their bodies or their minds.

They never had the understanding of commitment to begin with.

Doing anything when it comes easy requires little to nothing of you.

It has little value attached to it.

When something costs you - whether it's time, money, effort, or all three, it begins to mean something to you.

Seeing results is important.

Results are why you invested.

Results show you that you're moving in the right direction.

What those results cost you, however - the time, money, and effort - are what anchor you to the process.

Letting it slip means your effort was in vain.

The more you sacrificed to get there, the more you let fall from your grasp.

So you push on and continue to progress.

The commitment to the process - the effort it takes to do what is necessary - is what separates you from the status quo.

In case you haven't been paying attention -
 The status quo is a disappointment.

This year, you can do the same thing, and let external circumstances dictate what you do to make yourself better.

You won't be alone. There will be plenty of company.

OR

You can do something different this year.
Start getting better now.

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