Three Things You Need to do for Life

What are the most important things you can do on the quest for fitness? Do you need three new exercises or a new diet? Maybe. Sometimes though all you need is attitude and the courage to push yourself.
The three essential traits that successful people have are very important to us in our quest for fitness and health. Without these traits we flail around running from one new fad to another, spending money on everything that comes along that promises us bigger and better. If it isn’t the ‘insider’s guide’ or the ‘real way’ to do something it’s new and it’s shiny and we want it.
 New and shiny these tips are not, and they require some work on your part to see them through. If there is one thing I’ve learned it’s that you need to stick to something long enough to see if it works.

Focus 

 When you walk, do you look down at your feet? Or, do you look ahead to see what’s out there? If you are like most people you look ahead so you can see what is coming at you; keeps you from walking into poles and such.
 Focus in sport or exercise is much the same. If you lose sight of where you want to be-in your fitness quest-you get distracted by every shiny new thing that comes along.
In order to achieve your goals you need to be goal driven. You need to have a plan on how to get there, and you need to constantly be looking ahead to your ultimate objective. Many people are so afraid of not reaching their goals that they never truly set any. They look only to what is directly in front of them and they are so afraid of failing, they never give themselves the chance to succeed.
Take some time to define your goals-what do you really want-not only out of your quest for fitness, but for your life?

Limits 

 What are your limits? Do you really know? Have you ever really pushed yourself to the absolute limit of what you could do to find out where your ‘fail point’ is?
 One of the things that happens with all of us is that we get too comfortable with where we are. We stagnate and keep safely within our own little comfort zones. And we never find out what we are truly capable of doing. I’ve had people in karate classes swear up and down that they will ‘never’ be able to board break. Yet, once they realise how simple it is-once they realise they don’t need to limit themselves in what they can and cannot do, they are amazed at how simple it really is. Once they allow themselves to go beyond the limit they’ve placed on themselves, they learn to soar.
 This is true in every facet of life. Push yourself to your limits to discover what they really are-then soar beyond and find new ones.

Follow the Better Path

 How can you be more effective in what you do every day? What is the quicker/easier/more efficient way to do it? Once you start asking these kind of questions you really have to dig inside to find out.
 Even the healthiest and best adjusted person in the world has a rat’s nest of feelings and motivations under the surface. Many people refuse to look because they don’t want to know, but if you really want to reach the next level in anything you need to trust yourself and let your creative problem solving take over.
 Figure out what the best way is to do it-whether it is exercise and diet, cleaning your house, or life in general. Figure it out and do it.
 Life doesn’t have to be lived with limits unless we are too timid to push beyond to see what we are actually capable of doing. Carpe Diem is not just an old lame phrase- it’s a call to action, and a call to live life to the fullest.
Go for it.