I'm starting this blog right here and right now. Small consistent steps are the way towards achieving your goals. If you don’t start something now, you’ll forever be in the same place no matter where you are. This applies to whatever you are trying to achieve.
1) Pick a goal and start with the most basic step that you can
If your goal is overall health, try drinking 5 glasses of water for 3 days straight. If you're really ambitious, aim for 7 days in a row.
If your goal is to get in shape, put on your sneakers and go for a walk. (This is how I rebounded from a bad injury, and it’s become the cornerstone to my fitness approach. Fitness doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, the less complicated it is, the longer you can keep it up)
2) Find the most enjoyable way to keep you on track
- You don’t need a perfect strategy to start. Just do something you will enjoy so that you won’t give up. If you want to start an exercise regimen, find some exercises that you like doing and just stick with them for a while.
Perhaps you like doing push-ups, or there are certain machines or free weight exercises you like doing. Stick with that and find small ways to improve each week.
- For example, start a push-up program to build up to doing 50 in a row. Track your progress(on paper or using an app) so you can visually see your improvement. For example:
1) find out how many pushups you can do in a row – write that number down
2) then, start your program of doing 5 sets of pushups (3 – 4 times per week)
3) each time, do 1 extra rep per set and write down your workouts (paper/pencil, apps, or notes on your phone all work just dandy for this)
4) find some way to improve each workout, such as doing more overall pushups, or doing more consecutive pushups each time. Any kind of improvement is still improvement.
5) Once you get to your push-up goal, then you will most likely want to move onto something else, and perhaps start a pull-ups or dips program, or perhaps lift some weights, or something similar...you see how this works?
3) Expect mistakes
- I've made some huge ones in my life, but I try to find out how to learn from them to get to the next goal. Looking back will hurt your neck. When you make a mistake, accept it, learn from it, understand it, dust yourself off, and then get back on track.
4) Dont be afraid to ask for help, but also know when it's time to just make it happen yourself
- Build a support system and keep yourself accountable, but ultimately you are the one who will control your own destiny. Stay away from the people who doubt you (and give you bad energy), and surround yourself with people who believe in you (and give you good energy).
5) Have fun learning throughout the process
- Even within your mistakes, you will figure things out quicker each time. That is still progress.
- You'll never know it all and that's half the fun. Believe in yourself and always find ways to get better. Getting to the goal isn’t half as much fun as the journey to get there itself.