And The Next Excuse Is?

"Nobody cares about your excuses.nobody pities you for procrastinating nobody is going to coddle you because you are lazy.its your ass you move it."

I saw this quote and had to share it. When I saw it; it was as if someone had been listening to my inner thoughts when I first started seriously exercising.  My mantra, said while power walking, jogging, or anything that I didn't want to do and had to force myself, was: Get up and MOVE! Move that fat ASS! Seeing that it is my butt, I can call it fat all I want and I did. Everyone has their own mantra and motivator's, we also have our excuses: I don't have time, I don't like to sweat( seriously!?), I feel funny working out, people are judging me( they already have, who cares!), my body jiggles( yes, because you don't workout!) etc. And while we have all used one of these or created new excuses, it is still our butts getting wider by the minute. Sitting on the sofa, watching whatever television show is causing our brains to leak from our ears, when you could and should be up, moving! I can remember making plans to exercise, I mean serious plans! I would say at around 9 am "Dawn, today is THE day that you start exercising. You are going to go hard at around 5 p.m, no excuses!" And for some reason, unknown to me(giggle), it would get late and I was crawling into bed, everything else done and yet, no exercise.  I would be so disgusted with myself, procrastinating and giving every reason( mostly blaming my kids) as to why I didn't exercise. I know a lot of you feel the same way: disgusted with yourself and trying to figure out why you keep procrastinating. Well stop! Trying to figure out why you don't move is still not moving! Don't think too hard on it, just get up. I was hard on myself; I had to learn to be or I would still be making excuses to this day. This type of procrastination had leaked into every area of my life by the way. I could and would create reasons, mostly out of fear, as to why I wouldn't try anything new, change became scary. It doesn't have to be this bad folks, really, it doesn't and I speak from experience. Make a plan, write it out( this is key), get your exercise clothes and shoes out! so you can see them and feel guilt when they aren't being utilized! If you are de-conditioned( haven't worked out in a long time) go slow! Start with 15 - 20 min. of your favorite exercise. No, not moving the fork from your mouth to the plate! Real exercise. Try not to think about how long it has been since you have exercised, does it really matter anyway? Think about what you are doing now, at this moment, to change your life. This is all that counts, live in the now and procrastination is nothing to you. You will be too busy moving, shaping (excuse the pun) your world and body to what you want. Wishing you Peace and Love, but mostly Peace.