Getting things done!

April 26th, 2009

How many of you have “To Do” lists?

Are fitness and health activities on this list?

What percentage of your “To Do” list ends up “To Done”?

I’m sure some of you have read books like the one from the great Steven Covey call “First things First”, but here comes the real deal maker.

Are the things on your list the things you Need to do, or are they the things you are willing to do.

Chances are if you wrote a new list of 10 things (That are legal and morally correct) that you don’t want to do.  The first 10 that come to mind are things you need to do the most.

When I first started out and made the decision I was going to work towards getting fit,  I had to set my priorities. In the first couple of weeks almost anything could derail my scheduled gym time.   I always found an “I can’t exercise today because”.

If you truly want to get into shape, lose weight, or any other goal for that matter, here is what I suggest.

Write down all the ways you could achieve your goal, then put  big X by the ones you don’t want to do.

Mine looked like this:

X  Watch what I eat and make sure it is healthy and nutritious

Cut out sugary drinks and some snacks.

X Exercise for 45+ mins per day.

X Publicly declare my goals so that I’m held accountable

Take supplements to make sure I’m getting the right levels of vitamins and nutrients

Remember the X stands for something I really didn’t want to do.   Those are the items I needed to do the most.

Ask your self what it is that you have as a goal… then make sure its not fear and hesitation of doing the things you don’t want to do, keeping you from achieving this goal.

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4 Comments

  1. Aaron Evans June 9th, 2009

    That is really a detailed diet plan which I was looking for long. You cannot imagine how helpful you are.

  2. Simon S. December 4th, 2009

    Good plan! I wish I found it a few months ago. I had high cholesterol so switching to daily excercise and diet was a must and really hard. A good goal-setting plan like this would be helpful. Anyway, I believe I can apply this for things other than weight loss, thank you!

  3. jeny09 December 29th, 2009

    thanks for sharing such a nice information……….

  4. Amanda Glenn February 23rd, 2010

    Getting things done QUICKLY is a real problem to me…I always have no time for what I want in the end (storts, cooking healthy food etc…) But if i do thses things in the first place, I wont have time for work, bringing up kids, etc

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