09/11/2024
Last year on September 11, as part of my 16 week Reverse New Year’s challenge, I also set a goal to do a full year of 21 minute elliptical workouts followed by 50 push-ups. Yesterday, September 10, marked the end of those 366 days (leap year). I am proud to report that I completed my 366 elliptical workouts followed by 50 push-ups. What did this accomplishment teach me? Obviously commitment and perseverance is needed in order to accomplish that kind of a feat. But most importantly, it is about setting realistic goals and executable action plans, and then a lot of pre-planning. Looking ahead as to when and where I was going to get those workouts in. There are certainly days where it just didn’t work… either because of schedule limitations or vacation time in places where access to an elliptical was not feasible. So in my plan I allowed myself to make up those missed days by doing an extra workout on other days. Early on in the challenge, I knew that I needed to bank a few days in order to accommodate for upcoming holidays. Near the end of the challenge I had to make up 9 workouts in the last 21 days due to missed workouts from other holidays. Having this commitment on the forefront of my lifestyle and making it a priority was ultimately the key to accomplishing it. Yes, sometimes I really didn’t want to. When I wasn’t feeling the healthiest. When I was tired. When I was rushed. When I sacrificed another commitment or obligation. But those scenarios were the “sometimes” and we can persevere and push through those sometimes. Most of the time we are able to accomplish many things if we set our minds to it and make it a priority. I challenge YOU… If you “want” something, figure out the actions that will move you in the direction of that want. Then “get” yourself set up for success by creating a realistic action plan to put in place. Then make it part of your life. “Live it!!” That action plan is now part of your lifestyle if you choose for it to be.
Want IT, Get IT, LIVE IT!!
You may not succeed every day depending on what the plan is, but over a long enough time frame, depending on how you set up that action plan, you might still shoot 100% or even if you get to 80-90% that is still pretty darn good as well. So go for it!! Start today as a 16 week plan to New Year’s Eve, or pick another timeframe.
I am terrible at keeping up with social media and my website but if you go to www.reversenewyears.com you will find more resources to help you come up with ideas, and how to use my SMARTER concept to help guide you in setting up your action plans and time frames.
