I am the light at the end of the weekly tunnel...
Ahhhhh, Fridays always feel so gratifying for some reason. Especially after a busy week of work...even if I took a day off yesterday, it still felt long. And I'm looking forward to the long weekend. It'll be nice to not have so many things planned, and to have an extra day to do stuff around the house. Tinz is now 31 weeks, so I have roughly 6 weeks to get all my ish done around the house! I need to get cracking!
Of P90x, Insanity, and quick-fixes
We're always looking for the quickest fix, the get-rich-quick ideas, rather than slow and steady, steady and slow(Believe it or not, the first time I ever heard this saying was Goofy, racing some crazy fast car on a hilly course, and ends up winning...kinda like the tortoise and the hare I guess). Anyway, the same goes with fitness...the P90X or most recently, the INSANITY workout...7-minute abs, he he he. Instead of making physcial fitness a regular part of our daily life, we go for the quick-fix. And I don't have anything personal against the P90X or INSANITY workout, especially if you're trying to lose fast...but what happens AFTER the program is done? Do we go back to our old habits where after some point, we'll have to go back to the exercise program again down the line? Or at that point do we keep it up on our own, exercising daily for at least 30 minutes? I'd HOPE it was the latter, but I fear it's the former. This applies to everything we have in our lives, and the thing we all have to realize is that habits make a lifestyle. We have to develop the habit of being fit, not go for the rush; or taking "shots," and then going hard until we are spent. And in our goals and dreams, this is the most important to realize, it takes baby steps, consistency, and perseverence to achieve our goals and make our dreams a reality. I've known this and always brushed it off, and not until recently did I really make an effort to put it into application. Let's go back to fitness...well, kinda; I want to compete in a triathalon, not competively, but for myself, but I never did anything about it. I always thought, I'd just start training once I sign up. And then when the triathalons were approaching, I would back out because I would be scared that I don't even swim laps. So it would go back and forth....I soon realized, before I can even sign up, I should already be swimming. It's just not a good way to go about it. So I started swimming with Tinz...ideally, it would be 3 times a week, but 2 a week is all we can manage. But hey, 2 is > 1 and 1 > 0, right? So this baby step is helping me make huge leaps and bounds towards achieving that goal. Now I actually have my sights set on a target date, and feel much more comfortable at actually trying to get trained in time. See, baby steps. No crash-course would've prepared me for a race. And no crash-course can help us get to where we wanna go in life. It takes hard work and dedication. And the sooner we realize that, the better.
Take that baby step....that's the only way to get to the finish line!
Of P90x, Insanity, and quick-fixes
We're always looking for the quickest fix, the get-rich-quick ideas, rather than slow and steady, steady and slow(Believe it or not, the first time I ever heard this saying was Goofy, racing some crazy fast car on a hilly course, and ends up winning...kinda like the tortoise and the hare I guess). Anyway, the same goes with fitness...the P90X or most recently, the INSANITY workout...7-minute abs, he he he. Instead of making physcial fitness a regular part of our daily life, we go for the quick-fix. And I don't have anything personal against the P90X or INSANITY workout, especially if you're trying to lose fast...but what happens AFTER the program is done? Do we go back to our old habits where after some point, we'll have to go back to the exercise program again down the line? Or at that point do we keep it up on our own, exercising daily for at least 30 minutes? I'd HOPE it was the latter, but I fear it's the former. This applies to everything we have in our lives, and the thing we all have to realize is that habits make a lifestyle. We have to develop the habit of being fit, not go for the rush; or taking "shots," and then going hard until we are spent. And in our goals and dreams, this is the most important to realize, it takes baby steps, consistency, and perseverence to achieve our goals and make our dreams a reality. I've known this and always brushed it off, and not until recently did I really make an effort to put it into application. Let's go back to fitness...well, kinda; I want to compete in a triathalon, not competively, but for myself, but I never did anything about it. I always thought, I'd just start training once I sign up. And then when the triathalons were approaching, I would back out because I would be scared that I don't even swim laps. So it would go back and forth....I soon realized, before I can even sign up, I should already be swimming. It's just not a good way to go about it. So I started swimming with Tinz...ideally, it would be 3 times a week, but 2 a week is all we can manage. But hey, 2 is > 1 and 1 > 0, right? So this baby step is helping me make huge leaps and bounds towards achieving that goal. Now I actually have my sights set on a target date, and feel much more comfortable at actually trying to get trained in time. See, baby steps. No crash-course would've prepared me for a race. And no crash-course can help us get to where we wanna go in life. It takes hard work and dedication. And the sooner we realize that, the better.
Take that baby step....that's the only way to get to the finish line!
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