Success With Your Fitness Goals

When you set goals for your personal fitness, it is helpful to know that 90% of your fellow goal-setters will quit within a month! This is not because it is necessarily difficult to do the things that you have set yourself up to do but more likely because of mental traps that they fall into without realizing it. Here are a few tricks to avoid those traps.

Try to be around like-minded people as much as you can and actively avoid those who are likely to be inimical to your plans. This means hanging out with active people who talk about and do healthy things and avoid those who like to eat junk food and sit around lazily.

Keep your goals strictly to yourself. Contrary to popular opinion, you do not need to force yourself to be accountable in this silly way if you are serious. More importantly, you do not want people who may feel threatened by your plans to get the opportunity to frustrate your efforts. They can bombard you with negativity and temptations and you don’t need to help them.

Remind and reassure yourself often about why exactly you want to get fit. Do you want to have more energy? Look better? Attract that new person? Make your ex jealous? Whatever it is, reconnecting with the emotional triggers often will keep your motivational levels up. If you ever feel like giving up or taking a break after a couple of weeks, reconnect with these emotional motivators.

Don’t get disillusioned if you slip and fall back into your old unhealthy habits or miss a couple of workouts. This is normal, specially when you are starting out with a new lifestyle, and it doesn’t help to worry about it or feel badly about yourself. Just laugh it off and get started again with full determination.

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