I've noticed a trend on social media lately that makes me cringe - negative self talk. If your goal is weight loss you are never going to accomplish that goal if you keep minimizing your accomplishments. We as a society love to beat ourselves up over things we do "wrong". STOP IT! You will never have a life you love if you continually berate yourself for your perceived short comings.
You do NOT have to go to a gym to be physically active. Let me repeat: you do NOT have to go to a gym to be physically active. To be physically active all you have to do is to move. Cleaning the house is being physically active. Get out of the house and doing something active. Walks are physically active. Have fun, make it a game. The point is to move. It doesn't matter what you do, just get up and move!
Okay, so maybe you weren't as physically active as you committed to, so what. It doesn't make you wrong, a failure, or lazy, it's just what happened. Stop beating yourself up over it. You can't change what you've already done. You broke your word, you broke your commitment, that is it.
But, did you actually brake your commitment?!
I'd like you to consider the possibility that you never actually committed to your goals in the first place. It's easy to think you've made a commitment to going to the gym 5 times this week but did you really make that commitment? Unless you take action, you have not made a commitment.
How can you take action?
I believe the ultimate action you can take to any commitment is to share your goal with others and ask them to hold you accountable. It's action and you are enrolling others in helping you. Remember we are not meant to live life in isolation. You could also write down what you are committed to. I believe this works for the day to day things that everyone has in life but I strongly believe that the big life transforming commitments need to be communicated with others.
Commitment takes action and thoughts are not actions. If you told yourself you were going to go to the gym 5 times last week, you only thought about going to the gym 5 times last week. You didn't never actually committed to it.
Really think about this.
Did you commit or did you think about committing? Chances are you are beating yourself up over something you never committed to in the first place. That's crazy!
Commitment = honoring your word + taking action. It's a simple formula yet we tend to make it difficult.
I'm challenging you to take action. I'm challenging you to share with others what you are committed to and ask them to hold you accountable. I'm asking you to honor your word and follow through on your commitments.
I'll start. I have not food prepped this week so I'm committed to cooking at least one meal tonight. I commit to updating you tomorrow on whether I honored my word to take action and I ask you to hold me accountable for this commitment.
What are you committed to?
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