My Body Tutor : No More Excuses

Let me ask you a question, how many times did you feel uncomfortable this past week?

Let me start off by saying I hate change. No one likes change. No one likes to be uncomfortable! We’re creatures of habit. We do what we like to do because we’re familiar with it and it’s therefore comfortable.

So that means if we’re used to acting and eating and exercising a certain way and it’s not producing the results we want, we must change.

If we want to grow and evolve, we must do things (whatever it is we’re doing) differently.

That means automatic discomfort will ensue.

Being ready for it helps tremendously.

But let’s get to the root of it. What is keeping you from changing the way you really want to? Let’s ask ourselves two questions:

1. What is the worst that can happen?
2. What is the best that can happen?

2 is almost always greater than 1. The pain, discomfort, tension (whatever you want to call it) is temporary.

Here’s where it gets interesting though: The benefits of 2 are forever.

Right? What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. The more we’re able to deal with change, the more tolerance we have for it. The more we do things (hopefully they’re for the better) differently the more we’re able to handle different things.

So what can you change?

Here are some ideas:

Your attitude. Your outlook. How quickly you eat. What you eat. How much you eat. How long you exercise for. How intense you exercise. How many times a week you exercise. If you exercise. Your beliefs (this is hard!).

Every single one of these requires change and experiencing some sort of discomfort.

Try pushing yourself out of your comfort zone today and this weekend. Whatever feels most uncomfortable – do that.

For example, you walk into the kitchen at work and there are cookies everywhere. The most uncomfortable thing to do would be to not eat any cookies. Do that!

Try it. You’ll be surprised at the result and the way it makes you feel.