Morning Musings: May 21
This thing that I have to do first will still get done – a half and hour later. Case in point: I remember a client who insisted that she couldn’t exercise over the weekend because she had to paint her […]
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This thing that I have to do first will still get done – a half and hour later. Case in point: I remember a client who insisted that she couldn’t exercise over the weekend because she had to paint her […]
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If I put exercise off, I will undoubtedly find a way to convince myself that I have other things that are way more critical and must take priority – when the truth is I have managed to get most everything […]
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I can make exercise something I associate with great feelings like pride, relief, self-respect, youthfulness, or something I associate with dread and guilt – all by when I schedule it. I can spend the day glorying in how proud of […]
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Too tired is probably one of the most common reasons for not exercising in general, and certainly in the morning. What one of my clients says to herself to talk herself into getting up in the morning to exercise is […]
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The first 10 minutes is always murder – for everyone. My legs feel like lead and I always think I must be coming down with something. I’ve learned not to take it so seriously. “Yeah, this is how I always […]
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There is an expression they use in 12 Step Programs when encouraging someone to own the consequences of indulging before they actually do it. They say, “Think it through”. They mean, of course, to think through to the predictable negative […]
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In fact, too tired, too stressed and too busy just can’t count. When would at least one of these things not be true? Interesting to note, but not any more relevant than those circumstances would be to my decision to […]
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I would weigh about 30 lbs. more than I do now eating what I eat now if I didn’t exercise. I do an average of about 300 exercise calories a day. Do the math. 300 X 365 days, divided by […]
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Often, if I will just do a token something in the morning, like half my walk or the first segment of an exercise DVD, it is just enough to get me to do some additional little piece later. So by […]
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I have found that working out on Mondays makes a difference for the whole rest of the week. It is like I either got on the exercise track or the couch potato track for the week. So a decision about […]
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