June 19, 2012

I'm calling myself out. No more excuses!

Alright, enough is enough! I've had it and I'm calling myself out. I make a lot, no... make that way too many excuses to not do the things I know that I need to do. My eyes were opened up to this tonight. I was making excuses all evening about working out.

There's so much to do.
I don't have enough time. Edde is out of town and I have a lot to do.
It's way too early in the morning. I went to bed too late.
It's too late at night (if I didn't get up in the morning of course).
I need to pick up the house, do some laundry, make dinner, make lunches for tomorrow.
I hate to leave the girls downstairs while I'm working out.
I do need a rest day for the 1/2 marathon on Saturday.

Yadda, yadda....the list goes on.

Then I finally say: Christina, get your butt moving and get on that treadmill. You know you need to keep your legs moving this week for the 1/2 marathon. You know how good you feel when you are running or strength training. Just do it!

So I did it and I felt soooo good of course!  I really needed it. It always clears my mind and I feel more productive and happy for the rest of the night. Duh!  Now if I had done it when I first began thinking about it instead of spending the time making excuses to not do it I would have been done much earlier in the evening.

Why do we make excuses? I know I love it when I'm exercising. I love the feeling of accomplishment, I love the sweat, I love pushing myself beyond my self-imposed limits, I love feeling better about my body by doing something so good for it. I feel worse when I don't exercise.

So while I was running tonight I decided that right now, tonight, I'm done with my excuses. Not just for exercise but for everything. I can run an excuse tape for just about anything. My nutrition, chores around the house, stuff to do at the office, etc.

What are your excuse tapes? Take notice today of your thoughts. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pay close attention to my thoughts and keep track of all the times an excuse or a procrastination (cuz that's really an excuse too right?) come up. I want to hear it and turn it around. If I can easily talk myself out of doing something why can't I just turn the dialogue around and find all the reasons to do it and get it accomplished?

I'm really curious to see how many times I do this and for what reasons and what situations. I'm sure it will take some time to get rid of these, but I know for sure that now that I've put myself on notice and blabbed about it with all of you I'll definitely catch myself doing it! I won't be listening to the excuses any longer. They are no longer in charge.

Try this out and see what excuse tapes you play. Keep track for a couple of days and see what it brings up for you. Let me know about your experience. We can all learn from one another.

Blessings,

Christina

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