Mindset

This is not your usual newsletter article. Normally we’ll talk about nutrition, healthy recipes, how you should be exercising, fun ways to stay in shape and a bunch of other cool stuff. I’m going to go out on a limb and be completely transparent and talk to you about MY mindset when it comes to health and fitness. Now before I start you need to know a few things. I’m not a robot and I’m not perfect. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t live this way all the time, although I try REALLY hard to stay consistent. Consistency and dedication are words that people throw around but don’t really believe in their meanings. I hear all the time “Gary I want to workout but I just can’t find the time”. BS!!!! The one thing that we all have the same amount of is time. If you want to be healthy you have to be consistent and be dedicated to it. I’m not saying that you have to workout every day and be a fitness freak. I’m saying that you need to be serious and work at it and make healthy living a part of your life. Just like you did in school… bombarded with work you still had to make the time to study. If you’re overwhelmed in the work place, you still have to find the time to be great at your work or you won’t have work. It’s the same thing with fitness; you have to make the time. I was asked the other day “if my schedule is always changing how can I stay consistent with workingout?” I asked the guy “what time do you wake up in the morning”? he said 6am. I told him to wake up at 5am and get a 20 minute workout in. He looked at me like I was from the moon. I followed up with asking him “how serious are you”. No reply just a smile. Find the time and stop make excuses!!!!! So, I have said these same words to people for years and it never fails, I get back from someone “it’s easy for you because you’re in a gym all day and you’re fit already”. You’re right I am in a gym for 15 hours a day, so the last thing I want to do is stay there and workout. And let me tell you, if I’m workingout people are trying to ask me work question or talk to me about this or that. I can’t tell you how many times I get “I know your workout out BUT…”.I understand!! Like I said at the beginning I’m not this perfect fitness guy BUT I hate inconsistency. That’s not just with fitness either. I want to be a GREAT husband, dad and fitness professional and CONSISTANTLY get better at all of them. Just ask Jill (my wife and business partner /boss) when I’m inconsistent in those areas I get so bummed and down on myself. I despise that feeling. It all starts with your mindset. If you don’t make the decision to choose to be health and fit you will never stick with it. Sure you may stick with it for 2 or 3 months at a time but then stop for 2 or 3 months. Then when you come back, it’s like starting all over again. That just sucks. You have to do things when you don’t want to do them. I’m sure you don’t want to wake up an hour earlier or train when you get home from work. Sorry, but there is no pill that’s going to get you fit and there never will be. You have to work at it and workout it and oh did I mention you have to work at it.