With the new year here I can literally here the hum from peoples brains thinking of all the wonderful new and technically perfect habits they are going to start. I can already feel the tremble of the feet running into the fitness centers and around the perimeter of the grocery store instead of the junk food aisle and drive thru’s.
Bastard’s, for literally day’s they will likely have my favorite foods on a shortage until they give up as fast as they started.
Why is it that year after year so many people vow to start something outlandish and never stick to it?
Of course you all know. Its because they try and complicate the hell out of things instead of just taking one step at a time and nailing the basics. Pick some battles not all wars, get something you can win along the way learn to walk before you fly, etc.
Well that and they are all spineless and weak-willed individuals with no self-esteem living lives for others approval and other dreams or quota’s but that’s for another piece another time.
This year when you set goals, or people are asking your advice, I say take a firm real look of your / their actual reality and go from that point. Simply nail the basics - we are all not doing something small and trivial. If you/they nail the simple basics and do it with consistency you will make great progress, you’ll win a few battles and make the wars that much more manageable.
Train
Get active. Exercise, walk, lift, play a sport, jog, throw, bike hike, something. Just do something small that was more then you were doing yesterday. Don’t make it complicated do something. It will all make a difference.
Yes, I have my preferences and would rather see people train then exercise. Rather see them squat for ten minutes then do an hour of step aerobics. Still, if walking is more than yesterday and you’ll do it today, and the next day, it will help and will lead to bigger things.
Eat
Don’t starve, stuff, feast, deprive, gorge, or fast. Just eat. If more people would just eat, take away the supposed power food has over them and just eat they would make great progress to being a better them then they were even weeks prior. Its not that complicated even if you live on fast food and half way decent grocery food stuff. You can have an at least halfway decent level of fitness and ability.
Just allow it and don’t get caught in the crazy food spiral. If you fall off and gorge one meal or even a few days. So what - it's not the end of the world - get back on track and just eat better then yesterday. It will make a difference.
Rest / Stress
Get some and limit the other. Flat out learn to take it a bit easy from time to time. Every night try and get a good night sleep. It will pay off with you feeling better and performing better the next day and you will far eclipse any small progress you ground out when you were insistent on staying up and getting it done now.
Sure this is life and there will be time you have situations that call for such, but not as often as people make it and most times they bring it on them selves by procrastinating. Then lack of rest breeds stress, stress breeds less quality sleep. It’s a vicious circle.
Try and get a grasp on it and really learn not to stress the small stuff the things people let get to them are usually not that damn important or pressing.
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That’s really about it. If you take time to simplify and do those things first, don't over complicate, get a firm grasp on those basics, then by all means start to complicate things. You’ll have a firm grasp and foundation though to build that greater structure and what was complicated once will be just another rung up the ladder of progress.
So this year I say everyone advanced or beginner take a look back, simplify a few things. Take a look at some smaller things that you may be overlooking or avoiding and nail those first. They will likely lead you to your larger goals at a much faster rate.
Originally Published on StaleyTraining.com
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