Banish Excuses: How To Change Your Attitude Towards Working Out
Excuses are a huge part of why so many individuals hold themselves back from becoming fit, healthy, and achieving realistic fitness goals. Popular excuses include you don’t have enough money, not enough time, and you’re too tired or too busy. While these seem like mountains in the way of your fitness goal, they are not the problem, but rather your attitude is. So banish excuses and change your attitude, and your life, for the better. Now is the time to discover how you can say ‘NO’ to any excuse holding you back.
The Power Of Your Attitude
Although working out may appear to focus solely on physical strength, it also takes a great deal of mental strength to accomplish your fitness goals too. The attitude you project, whether it is positive or negative, can hugely impact your workout with the frequency and intensity of the exercises you decide to do. It’s incredibly easy to hear those defeatist words in your head telling you ‘I can never do it,’ or ‘it’s impossible, you may as well not even try,’ and to believe them. How do you change your negative attitude into a positive one? First and foremost, with anything in life, especially exercise, it takes a dash of dedication, a sprinkle of motivation, and an abundant amount of practice. If you don’t practice or train and begin at a lower level that is comfortable for you, how do you expect to improve and finally reach your fitness goals?
It starts with YOU. You need to look in the mirror and start saying to yourself ‘It’s time to change my attitude,’ and ‘I can do this, I got this.’ One easy suggestion to change your attitude is to keep a journal and document your progress every day, no matter how small or slow your progress is. You’ll see how you’re starting to change and therefore will want to keep going. It might be difficult at first, but it all comes down to a healthy attitude to at least start and keep going day after day. Sooner rather than later your ‘I can’t,’ will become ‘I can and I will,’ to I did.
The Reasons Why We Sabotage Ourselves
We make excuses for ourselves all the time, and it isn’t because we don’t have enough money, as we have opportunities to exercise for free, or we can’t make the time, as we truly can, and it is also not because you are not capable of reaching your goals, because you totally are. Then what’s holding you back? It’s because we lack confidence and faith in our abilities, but mostly in ourselves to achieve something different and great. Let’s face it: we fear the unknown, of being rejected, of failure.
It’s human nature after all. We live in a society obsessed with instant gratification we can see with social media, fast food, and online shopping, and we sometimes forget real results and achieving goals, especially fitness goals, take time, dedication, and hard work. With a positive and healthy attitude towards working out, or least the commitment, you will begin to really embrace your goals and the work you’re putting into it, and hopefully fall in love with the journey you are on to become a healthier, happier, and fitter you!
