If only my life were going as well as my fitness program!

by Yuri in Client Journeys, Mindset, Yuri's Workouts

Today I finished week 2 of the first phase of Fitter U.  I love these circuit exercises because I feel like I’m doing a wide variety of full-body exercises that will prepare me to be more fit in… anything.  Everything!

My problem with weight-training in the past has always been about the tedium of counting reps and sets.  Sounds like a minor thing, but my approach to exercise is to “get in the zone” and not think about the time.  Can you imagine if you had to count every step in a two-mile run?  That’s what it feels like for me to be counting out every rep to every movement.  It’s agony.  I probably have ADD, I know…

So I love how I don’t have to count.  I just get ready, set, and go when Yuri says to go and then I stop when he says to stop.  Perfect!

One thing I wanted to talk about was something Yuri said during the warmup today that really resonated with me, about how successful people make sure they do the things that need to be done before they do anything else, they do that consistently, and they do those things even if (especially if) they’re the things they don’t want to do.

Remember that ADD?  I am a big one for doing what I want to do first and then squeezing in the “have-to’s” if there’s room.  (I used to eat dessert for breakfast, too.)  Lately I have tackled this issue as far as exercise.  I set some goals (lose ten pounds, start running again) and have been making great gains.  I recently told a friend that I do my exercise consistently and early on because then I feel good about myself for the rest of the day.

And while that’s good, it’s time to head into a new phase.  There are some other areas of my life where I’m not doing what needs to be done, not at all.  I’ve learned a lot about myself the past several months through my exercise plan but now I need to figure out how to carry that knowledge over to some other areas.

• My house is a mess!  That is a constant battle that I need to face.
• I have a degree in French but never use it and my skills are rusty.  I have the time, I have books, what am I waiting for?
• I love to write, am always promising to polish some rough projects and get them out in the world but there they still sit, in draft form.

I hope to make some progress in these three areas in the coming weeks.  Is it possible to have more than one area of one’s life pulled together at the same time?