Are your decisions hurting your results?

It’s quite possible that the only thing preventing you from getting in the best shape of your life are the decisions you make on a daily basis.

I don’t care what others say. Your failure to hit your fitness goals are not the result of you choosing the wrong exercise program. Or the wrong diet.

The reason you are not hitting your goals is this…

YOU ARE MAKING POOR DECISIONS

I just made a poor decision before writing this.

I was just in the kitchen at work and there was some fresh fruit on the table. Rather than picking up an apple or banana, I reached in my pocket for a quarter. I popped it into the vending machine and bought some peanut butter cookies.

POOR DECISION!

I make poor decisions like this from time to time. I’m not perfect. And you don’t have to be either. It’s not a requirement for getting in shape.

The key is to make more good decisions on a daily basis, than you do bad decisions.

Treat yourself to things you enjoy every once in a while – but don’t overdo it.

You know what decisions will move you closer to your fitness goals. You also know which one will move you further away.

So how do you make more good decisions than bad decisions?

Well next time you are faced with a choice, as I was with the cookies and fruit – pause for a second.

Ask yourself, “Is this moving me towards my fitness goal or away from it?”

By pausing and answering that question, it’s often enough to sway you in the right direction.

But as you saw in my fruit vs cookies choice earlier it didn’t work for me – today.

I now know I made the wrong decision. But I’m not going to sit here and beat myself up over it. I briefly wrote down my feelings of regret in my health journal and know that I need to make a better choice next time. And I’m pretty confident I will.

Remember you don’t have to be perfect. Just make more good choices than bad choices. And when you make a bad one, reflect on it and learn from it.

As you take time to become aware of the choices you make each day, you’ll notice your tendency to make the right choices improve. And with that you’ll begin to move closer and closer to your fitness goals.

I’d love to hear about some of the poor choices you make on a daily basis. Go ahead and let me know about them in the comments below and what you are doing to avoid making those poor choices in the future.