Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
It’s the time of the year when everyone says ‘new year, new me’ or ‘this is going to be my year’ or ‘it all starts January 1st’ all of which we know is complete tosh.
It never works, nobody ever gets anywhere and lo and behold we are in the exact same position 52 weeks later repeating last year’s oath – but this year we’re going to take it seriously, right?
I’ve written enough on goal setting (which you can find on my blog on www.tjhealthandperformance.com) so I will leave that to one side and assume that our goals are spot on.
There must be another issue that presents itself:
The fact that we have put off these goals to the New Year demonstrates that, we’ve thought something along the lines of ‘I’ll have fun up until the New Year then I’ll start working hard to get in shape’. This mindset needs to change.
One thing it does is that it makes hard work seem like the bad guy, there to stop you from having fun. Hard work is magnificent, it facilitates great change, great positive change. You need to embrace it. It often hurts when you’re doing it, but the nature of it being hard is why we don’t see everyone with six-pack abs and living to their late 90s.
Also, it puts the hard work on a pedestal, like it’s something you can’t do every day, and like a train that you either have to be riding at 200mph or waiting at a platform. It’s not like that, it’s a case of sometime feeling rubbish but doing the work anyway, or, if for some reason you experience a slump, just hop right up, dust yourself off and get straight back to it.
“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” ― Anthony Robbins (motivational speaker)
