No More Excuses - JFDI !!

Week one is finally here!!!

 

I have been preparing my mind, my kitchen, my diary, my life - ready for the start of the round and it is finally here.

 

Re-visiting my Pre-Season tasks was quite confronting – Setting goals is always fun, I enjoy thinking about what I can realistically achieve, Saying it out loud – is something I find easy, Kitchen makeover was quite unremarkable, I also enjoy diarising and planning, so that was great too – but Getting Real…. That was the task I was dreading the most – confronting my excuses, laying them out on the table and really facing them in order to conquer them – that bit can be a bit tough.

 

Excuses are such a crutch! We’ve all got them – we all carry a bag of excuses around with us, ready to pluck one out when we’re faced with something that we should do, that we maybe don’t want to do.  Last week I used every excuse in the book to get out of my training from “My Friend doesn’t want to come with me” to “My husband stole my early morning training spot” to “I didn’t get a good enough sleep last night”, what about “The round doesn’t start until Monday” or “Sunday is a rest day” – HELLO!! Not if you haven’t trained for most of the week it isn’t!!!

 

When in reality – I was coughing up excuses left right and centre because I was in yet another funk – my head spiralling with self-doubt and fear and that nasty little voice telling me that I’m only setting myself up for disappointment beginning this program again!! Useless mole that voice is!!! So the excuses came flying – sad thing is I didn’t believe a single one of them – I was just throwing them out there because I didn’t want to do the work.

 

So if I didn’t want to go to work would I phone up and say “Sorry, I didn’t get enough sleep last night” or “My husband isn’t home, I can’t leave the kids in the house by themselves, so I’ve just gone back to Bed”???!!! NO! I wouldn’t – there is NO WAY that I would throw an untrue excuse out there to avoid going to work – that would let down my peers, my colleagues, my patients and the company – it’s a no brainer. So why do I easily allow my excuses to stop me for working for me???

 

No more excuses!!!

 

I will train 6 days a week, I will keep these appointments that I have made with myself, I am important, I need to respect to myself more and do what it takes – I go to work because I enjoy it and because I get paid – I train because I enjoy it and the payOFF is the hot bod that I will achieve in 12 weeks time!!



Is it hard work - absolutely!! Can I do it - ansolutely!!

So this is what I'll tell my mole self if she tries to stop me from training - If you wouldn't use this excuse to get out of going to work - get your butt up and out and JFDI!!