As the weekend approaches, here is a quote that will keep you focus.
“You cannot travel the path, until you have become the path yourself.”- Buddha
If you want to become the person you envision yourself to be, you must do so today. Without the knowledge of how the path looks, you may find yourself walking the wrong way.
You must first believe.
You must first see it in your mind.
Change your lifestyle, change the way you perceive your life. Be the path you want to travel.
Don’t wait, become your future self now.
Have a great and blessed weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday.
I will be the first to admit it, sometimes working out can be boring. The same everyday workout routines can make us feel uninspired. Here are a few ways you can spice up your workouts:
Supersets- These are a combination of two exercises performed back to back with little rest in between. Supersets can target one body part or two different body parts. Adding supersets to your workouts can be challenging and on your toes in a good way.
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)- This type of training skips the rep counting and focuses on time instead. This can be anywhere from 30 seconds to 1 minute, and little rest in between. HIIT workouts will push you pass your limits and can get you in and out the gym quicker.
Drop sets- This type of training is done by starting off heavy then taking or reducing weight. This will help with fatiguing the muscles and contribute to a killer workout.
Pyramid Sets- This type of training starts with light weights with high reps then increasing the weight while decreasing the reps. This is a good way to keep your workouts interesting and poses a new challenge for your muscles.
This is just a few of the many ways you can make your workout pop. Throwing these in every once in a while will regain your interest in the gym. Try them for yourself and get out of that same routine.
To visualize is the first step towards making your reality come true. Without the proper vision, things can take a wrong turn. Let’s discuss the benefits of visualization:
Boost Performance– Your performance can use all the help it can get. When you first visualize how you want the outcome to look like you know what needs to be done.
Gain Clarity- Our journey through life can be confusing. Without the vision you can’t decide what direction you need to go. With visualization you will gain that clarity and start marching towards it.
Relieve Stress- Life can be very stressful at times, especially when you don’t know where you’re going. When you already visualize a better future you can handle your current stress better.
It’s in your best interest to have of vision of your future. Take time each day to visualize and you’re begin to feel the benefits.
If you can’t picture yourself being great, then it won’t happen. If you can only picture yourself doing what you doing now, then you will be stuck there.
To become what we dream to be, begins in the mind. Vision is an important part in any journey.
If you can’t see it first, how can you know if you on the right track?
The vision of a future not yet reached, but in your mind it can seem so vivid.
In these visualizations is where you start to believe. You can see yourself becoming.
Your Goal This Week- Start to visualize something you been wanting. This can be to get healthy, to get that career you always wanted. Paint the picture in your mind, what does being healthy look like to you? What does the person in the career you want do on a daily basis? Make it as real in your mind as possible, and then make the necessary adjustments to make it happen. Because after visualization comes action, and consistency.
As the weekend approaches, here is a quote that will keep you focus.
“The more you let people live their lives, the better your life gets.”- Mel Robbin’s
The added stress in life is put on by the worrying of how others are living theirs. When you learn to distance yourself from others, your life will begin to look up.
It’s your life that matters and you should be more aware of. The change starts with focus, and where your focus goes is what truly gets enhanced.
Social media has us constantly intrigued with others lives, which can be a good thing. It’s when we lost focus of our lives that the chaos starts to show.
It’s best if we limit our presence in others lives and make it essential to work on ours. You will become your best self in the process.
Have a great and blessed weekend and I’ll see you back here on Monday.
Dopamine, you probably heard this before and most by now know what it is. If you not sure let me fill you in, dopamine in its lames terms is the feel good hormone. When you see a cookie or donut it triggers that craving you feel for it.
Since we’re now aware of this fact how can we make it work for us. You may feel helpless in health journey when it comes to saying no to the food that is most effecting your health.
Dopamine tends to hit right before, at this moment you need to be self-aware and mindful of what happens next. If you like most people you will cave in and eat as much as possible, and feel bad after.
Here are a few things you can do instead:
Drink water- Most of the time a craving for high calorie foods just means you are dehydrated, and a cup of water could do the trick.
Get physical- Going outside for a walk or doing some body weight exercises will get your mind off that craving.
Work the mind- When that craving hits you may just be bored. You can take this time to do something productive that will work your brain. A puzzle, read, crossword is all examples you can reach for.
Give it time- Step away from the urge for a couple minutes. Take a few deep breaths and before you know it the urge passes.
If these tricks don’t work you can always be proactive. Don’t buy the snacks in the first place. When going shopping try not to do so hungry, have a grocery list already completed so you don’t have to even think about what you need.
Dopamine will always be there, replacing something unhealthy with something healthy will help develop a habit of making healthy choices.
It takes time and effort on your part, but with the right attitude you can get it done.
Let’s be honest here, nobody likes to fail. It’s a horrible feeling and sometimes you can’t help but feel like you’re worthless. This is one way to look at it, but there’s another way, a more positive outlook of failure. If you pay attention and embrace failure you can receive some positive feedback, here are a few:
How Not To Do Something- Learning how not to do something is more valuable than you know. No one really knows how to do a certain thing at first. It’s in the trying and failing that you learn.
Figuring Out Your Weaknesses- We all have some type of weakness. This can be talking in front of crowds, playing a certain sport, or writing in a certain format. Knowing our weaknesses from failing will eventually help us improve on them. Better to approach your weaknesses than avoid them.
Find Your Passion- When you fail at something and continue to try, this will revive what you really passionate about. I will give you a personal example: every day, every week, every month, even every year I failed at Jiu Jitsu, but I continue coming back. I found my passion and it’s in the failure that I find what truly drives me.
As you can see, failure is not as bad as you may think. Failure serves a purpose in life, it makes life less boring. Failure is the beginning of any journey, and you can learn from them if only you accept them. Like the great Henry Ford said “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.”
Life seem to be design to knock us down. Every time we seem to climb up, it finds a way to bring us down to earth.
The great thing is we are made to keep climbing no matter what. We are made to not let the past define us. We are made to look towards the future and make it our own.
To rise up above the storm and prosper. To set our own path and guide the next generation to do so as well.
The example we set will be of greatness.
Your Goal This Week- If there’s anything that’s getting you down, face it head on. Make the choice to either go over it, go under it, or go right through it. You are the biggest deterrent, and once you understand that it’s nothing that can get in your way.
That’s it for Monday Motion, remember you don’t need motivation, you just need to keep moving forward. Let’s go out and tackle the week ahead.
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