Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Every day can stand for the start of a new year.
You’re only one good meal away from eating healthy on a regular basis again.
You’re only one dead-lift away from getting back on your workout plan.
All that matters is today and if you do what you’ve set out to.
The new year? It doesn’t start on January 1st. It starts when you do.
Stay Positive & It Starts Today, It Starts Now
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Habit is what you do today, not what you did yesterday or what you will do tomorrow. If you disagree, let me ask you this:
The first day that you begin something that you want to consistently do each day, is that not considered a habit?
If not, then when is what you do finally a habit? I love habits because you can only measure them by the day. I love habits because you can only break them by the day. I say this, not to persuade you to agree, but to encourage to keep at your goals each day.
It’s much like the idea of being one bite away from getting back on your diet. Don’t let the lack of doing something yesterday stop you from doing it today. Just the same, don’t let the inability to do something over the weekend stop you from doing it today.
When it comes to habit, numbers mean nothing. All that matters is today and if you do what you set out to do.
Stay Positive & Deal With Tomorrow, Tomorrow
Garth E. Beyer
is always the best time to start.
There’s a wonderful reminder that I’ve worked up to counter the most common reason to not start now: you’re already behind.
I call it the One Bite Away reminder.
Imagine you start a diet (maybe you are currently on one) and things are going great. You’ve lost a few pounds, built some muscle, and even feel better. But then you begin snacking over the weekend.
Now you’re behind.
And since you’re behind, you might as well toss the diet plan. You messed up. You failed. Forget it. Maybe next year. Maybe in the summer. Maybe when you get enough motivation to ask someone to do it with you. Maybe when you build up to it again. Maybe when you get your feelings hurt.
Why we don’t realize that being slightly behind is a lot better than continuously getting further behind, I don’t know.
What I do know is that when you are behind, you’re only One Bite Away from getting back on the diet, back in the groove, back in the zone.
Seems pretty simple when you put it that way doesn’t it? One bite – not one hundred bites, not a week behind, not five pounds. One bite.
That’s how it is with any “diet.”
Stay Positive & Don’t Beat Yourself Up. You’re Just One Bite Away
Garth E. Beyer
