Happy Income Tax Day!
I want you to start thinking about your fitness more like you think about your money; logically. Money and fitness have a lot in common. Let’s look at three:
1. To achieve a high level of either requires a lot of work. Sure, there are a few shortcuts to each (like winning the lottery, inheriting some money, robbing one of those check cashing places, using steroids, having insane genetics, etc.), but for almost all of us, success with either just requires consistent effort and focus on a good plan.
2. To see the best results in either, we need a “budget.” With money, we need to budget out dollars, and with fitness, we need to budget our calories. We must spend them both on the right things.
3. We can get into debt with either. With money, this can look like credit card interest, student loans, and having babies. With fitness, it looks like falling out of shape because of schedule or life changes, getting injured or sick, and losing motivation, discipline, or time.
Here’s what I want you to get from this. We have, mostly, accepted these things regarding our money. We have not so much accepted them with our fitness. We tend to think there is some secret key to unlocking fitness. We think it’s a product, a diet, or a workout plan. But there is no one quick fix. Let me demonstrate how we think this way on each of the points I made above.
1. We know that people aren’t going to just hand us cash most of the time and that we have to work hard to earn it. Yet we look for quick fixes when it comes to fitness in the form of weird supplements that friends from high school with happy profile pics are excited to sell us.
2. It may take us a long time, but once we get a handle on where our money is going, we know how to manage it. Yet we don’t think about our food in terms of numbers. You don’t have to be as cold and calculated as that sounds, food is delicious and is meant to be enjoyed. But if you want to achieve fitness goals, then you need to know how you’re ”spending“ your calories and find a way to manage it.
3. We know we have to pay off our debt and that it takes a while to do so, but we hope to lose all the weight or gain all the muscle in “6 weeks” or “90 days” or whatever the ad says.
Think of your food like you think of your money. It’s not cute or romantic, but it just takes a while to get where you want to be. Embrace the process and celebrate the progress.
And if you need help or have questions, message me.
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