Today’s post is dedicated to my 100,000+ fans and followers that have decided to make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight. The inspiration was provided by AM – so thank you!
Before the excuses set in and you let yourself fail at another attempt of weight-loss – read this:
We are ALL busy in some way in our lives and for those that work, have children and go to school they’re no exceptions. Here is a list of my (the Drill Sergeant’s) top excuses as to why we all have failed in the past and why the excuses are full of crap.
1. With everything that I have going on – I just don’t have the time!
Bullshit! You DO have the time! You want to know how I know? Because YOU make time to work overtime or you make time to run your children around to various sporting events or games, or you make time to cook and clean and help them with their homework, or you make time to watch your favorite TV shows! You make time for everyone and everything else but YOU! YOU have the time when you start telling yourself that YOU are worth YOUR time!
2. I just don’t have the energy to work out.
DUH! It’s because you have packed on a few or a hundred pounds and you feel like crap! I have a secret for you…shhhhh…EXERCISE GIVES YOU ENERGY! Not to mention your food intake plays a HUGE part in your type of energy. If you can’t break away from the fast food AT LEAST choose the healthier fast foods and take a multivitamin. I am not asking you to go out and run a marathon, so get that out of your TIRED head! Building Blocks is about starting small to create a solid foundation for future growth and achievement. You push through the pain and discomfort of the first week or two and you look up afterwards and surprise yourself – VOILA you have energy!
3. I feel that I need to lose weight before I join a gym.
WTH? What kind of back-asswards comment is that? I have several issues with going to the gym! I am not a fan! I would rather exercise outside or around very few people. But guess what? I go to the gym because that is the most convenient and warm place for me to exercise right now. You need to pull your head out of your butt because you go to a gym to lose weight and exercise FOR YOU – just like everyone else at the gym. You are not there to socialize and look hot! You don’t go to the gym with your “hair did” and makeup on. If that is what you think the gym is about then you need therapy.
Excuses, excuses – we have excuses for anything and everything - NONE of which are good enough or deserve a priority over our own happiness.
The steps you take to ensure that you don’t give up and fail are very simple. You just do it!
You tell yourself that you are worth it and make the time you need for YOU!
You have set your resolution for YOU to lose weight and whatever else. Your resolution doesn’t end with: “I will resolve to lose weight – get healthier – whatever – only if I can find time, energy and a gym! “
And DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT trying to tell yourself that you CAN’T find the time, the energy or a place to work out! There is no CAN’T in the Drill Sergeant’s dictionary!
Either you will or you won’t!
Either you WILL or you WON’T!
Got it?
Six months down the road when the New Year’s resolution excitement has been forgotten and you are presented to the world; the only results that you will emanate are “ I did it”, or “I quit.” There are NO excuses in between. (Be accountable for your resolution – post it somewhere for everyone to see.)
You are the only person that can resolve to do anything for you.
You are the only person that can allow excuses to become more important than your goals.
I hope this New Year brings you new hopes, goals and energy to help see your resolutions to fruition.
Someone asked me the other day “why six-pack abs?” and my response was “why not?”
I have never had them and if I am fortunate enough to keep seeing sunrises, why not do something in this lifetime that I have always only wanted to do? I don’t want to leave my life knowing that I DID have all the time and energy in the world to accomplish EVERYTHING that I had only dreamed about if only I would have gotten out of my own way and let go of the excuses!
When I started this blog my initial timeline was 12 weeks remember? It has been over 6 months now because I haven’t quit. I found strength in me that I hope each and every one of you find as the next few weeks turn into 12 and then hopefully 6 months.
I told a friend this morning that YOU are worth all of your OWN blood, sweat and tears that you immediately shed for someone else so get out there and prove something to yourself!
Make 2011 – life changing!
It’s your turn now…go forth and conquer!
Days 204-209 "What's on the horizon..."
There was lots of travel for us this New Year’s holiday break.
A wedding out of town on the 31st, but we made it home in time to celebrate the New Year in the lap of luxury! (…my kind of luxury!)
It was early to rise on the 1st day of the New Year 2011 and on the road again we drove. We visited my dad and had the most delicious New Year’s lunch ever. Hours spent with family, was followed by hours back on the road driving home.
This is a brand new year – a year that holds new opportunities and exciting potential!
New Year’s Resolutions are filling the air and people are vowing to change their year for the good!
I resolve to not just change my year for a temporary good but to actually change my life!
Aside from the six-pack abs that I have deeply imbedded intentions of obtaining, my New Year’s Resolution is a simple one:
Change! (And the only way to change is to keep changing.) I know that might be confusing to some of you but hear me out.
I resolve to change in the direction of NEVER standing in my own way again!
I WILL to have those elusive (for me), currently fat covered, nice and yummy six-pack abs. I WILL to have my own Building Blocks studio. I WILL to have all my presented opportunities taken advantage of and my 2011 dreams come true!
I KNOW that I can do anything that I want to do and manifest all that I desire – if I could just get the hell out of my own way! I question, I worry, I theorize, I analyze and I stall. I tell myself that every other good idea that pops into my head must be a “sign” that I need to quit working on what makes me feel good and start on something else. I second guess my gut feeling and instincts because of fear. Fear that I might be on the right track and headed tostardom freedom! I paralyze myself with excited fear and I quit or draw my attentions somewhere else. I (what psychologist would call) deflect.
NO MORE!
Again: I resolve to change in the direction of NEVER standing in my own way again!
I WILL to no longer deflect.
I WILL to create or make time for me to CHANGE because I AM WORTH IT.
I WILL to prove to myself and everyone else that “everything I want in my life is possible!”
I WILL to lead by example and become the example you WILL to be like.
I.
Change.
My.
Life.
I have the support of great family and friends and now I have all of YOU my fans to keep me going. A girl couldn’t be luckier!
So what is on the horizon for me in 2011? What does another beautiful sunrise bring to me in 2011?
Maybe a 1/2 marathon…
Maybe a triathlon…
Maybe another attempt at a foreign language…
But!
Definitely six-pack abs…
Definitely my own Building Blocks studio…
Definitely more domestic travel and entertainment…I’m thinking Book Tour!
Hellz Yeah!!!!
The chills of excitement and non-paralyzing fear have set in!!!!!
Watch out world – Celebrity-ism is calling!
What is your resolution? What usually derails your intention?
A wedding out of town on the 31st, but we made it home in time to celebrate the New Year in the lap of luxury! (…my kind of luxury!)
It was early to rise on the 1st day of the New Year 2011 and on the road again we drove. We visited my dad and had the most delicious New Year’s lunch ever. Hours spent with family, was followed by hours back on the road driving home.
This is a brand new year – a year that holds new opportunities and exciting potential!
New Year’s Resolutions are filling the air and people are vowing to change their year for the good!
I resolve to not just change my year for a temporary good but to actually change my life!
Aside from the six-pack abs that I have deeply imbedded intentions of obtaining, my New Year’s Resolution is a simple one:
Change! (And the only way to change is to keep changing.) I know that might be confusing to some of you but hear me out.
I resolve to change in the direction of NEVER standing in my own way again!
I WILL to have those elusive (for me), currently fat covered, nice and yummy six-pack abs. I WILL to have my own Building Blocks studio. I WILL to have all my presented opportunities taken advantage of and my 2011 dreams come true!
I KNOW that I can do anything that I want to do and manifest all that I desire – if I could just get the hell out of my own way! I question, I worry, I theorize, I analyze and I stall. I tell myself that every other good idea that pops into my head must be a “sign” that I need to quit working on what makes me feel good and start on something else. I second guess my gut feeling and instincts because of fear. Fear that I might be on the right track and headed to
NO MORE!
Again: I resolve to change in the direction of NEVER standing in my own way again!
I WILL to no longer deflect.
I WILL to create or make time for me to CHANGE because I AM WORTH IT.
I WILL to prove to myself and everyone else that “everything I want in my life is possible!”
I WILL to lead by example and become the example you WILL to be like.
I.
Change.
My.
Life.
I have the support of great family and friends and now I have all of YOU my fans to keep me going. A girl couldn’t be luckier!
So what is on the horizon for me in 2011? What does another beautiful sunrise bring to me in 2011?
Maybe a 1/2 marathon…
Maybe a triathlon…
Maybe another attempt at a foreign language…
But!
Definitely six-pack abs…
Definitely my own Building Blocks studio…
Definitely more domestic travel and entertainment…I’m thinking Book Tour!
Hellz Yeah!!!!
The chills of excitement and non-paralyzing fear have set in!!!!!
Watch out world – Celebrity-ism is calling!
What is your resolution? What usually derails your intention?
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