Consistently exercising has been a challenge for me and I am pleased to say that I had an ‘aha’ moment about exercise the other day that I wanted to share in hopes that it will also help you.
I was walking for my cardio exercise on a nice crisp Michigan morning and thought “I am almost done with my walk and I will be able to get started with my day”. And then the moment of awareness hit me enough to make me stop short.
I have been struggling with the habit of exercise because I do not think of it as part of my usual day. It is something to get done and get out of the way so I can move on to the important stuff. No wonder consistently exercising has been a challenge for me.
So here some actions I took to change my mental message. You can use these tips as a template for any topic.
- Develop an affirmation and use it that addresses exercise as part of my lifestyle.
- Complete visioning activity that includes exercise as part of my usual day.
- Create an action plan for making exercise part of my usual day.
- Just do it.
This process can be summarized as: ask, believe and act. So what mental message has you stuck and what can you do to change it?
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