Staying Motivated

Motivation - the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way, the general desire or willingness of someone to do something.

Whether it is a diet, exercise plan, work, or just the normal day to day routine staying motivated can be a real challenge.

What is your motivation? Work - is it money, Diet - is it to stay healthy, the day to day grind - is it to just provide for your family?

Even When You Don't Feel Like It

Keeping with it even when you don't feel like it can be hard but it will be worth it. We all have those mornings that we wake up and just want to hit the snooze button over and over or just cut it off. But if you are anything like me sometimes you feel a lot better when you just get up. On days that I take a day...I feel horrible. I mean L-A-Z-Y. I feel like I am part of the cast on the walking dead. I have my morning routine and when it gets interrupted I am just not myself. Sticking with it is easier at least for me.

If you mess up or miss a day or have a cheat day...whatever you call it!

Reset, Restart, Get Back to it!

Getting back to it can be difficult and yes hard. But just like anything that is worth doing it probably isn't easy. 

I like to think about running. When I first started a long time ago...I was out of breath and out of shape and couldn't get 1/2 mile in before I was ready to toss in the towel. Later after many, many runs I was running 4-6 miles a day and would go for a 7-10 here and there.  Each day I would go out and go for a run it would get a bit easier.  That is not to say every day is easy...some days the hardest thing is to put your shoes on.

After taking a good bid of time off of running it has been really hard to get back into it. It is easy to remember running at my old pace and to try to do that now doesn't help at all.