If you have ever dreaded a task or had difficulty getting started, you know how hard it is to achieve success. There is simply no way to succeed if you don’t start somewhere. The simple truth is, sometimes you need motivation. You need a reason to succeed, something to ignite your imagination and give you the wind beneath your wings.
Many women need to get motivated to begin exercising. If you need help getting motivated, you may need a friend to workout with or you may decide to hire a personal trainer to help you get started. These people can help to motivate and inspire you but to stay motivated, but it’s important to become accountable for your own motivation.
Mentally engaging in your workout will help motivate you to strive harder, go longer and achieve better results. After working out for a while you may become comfortable with the same old routine or worse, you may become bored with your routine. Make regular changes to your exercises, the repetitions, the amount of weight you use and the intervals you mix in.
Get involved with activities such as tennis or racquet ball at the gym or club. These sports give you the opportunity to socialize while getting a great amount of good physical exercise. The engagement of like-minded friends and acquaintances provides a great amount of motivation.
Take long walks and give your mind a quiet time to refresh and reboot. Your mind is the catalyst for motivation. It needs time to rejuvenate in order to focus on the task ahead. Walks are beneficial to your physical health, as well. If you have a dog, a daily walk is good for both you and your pet.
A nice bike ride by yourself or with family or friends is a nice way to unwind in the evening. Getting out in the neighborhood or nearby bike paths and parks can keep you familiar with the community while giving you a great physical activity that everyone can enjoy.
Keeping a journal is a great way to motivate yourself every day. Writing down your goals, focusing on your efforts and going over your achievements at the end of each day will provide you with the motivation to reach all of your goals.
Seven Super Diet Trends
Anyone anxious to lose weight will be excited about these seven super diet trends. Each one is safe, practical, and if you are willing to follow them, you will lose weight. A well-balanced diet is always the best choice, but be careful of added ingredients that can add more calories than you are burning off daily. Never sacrifice your health in order to lose a few pounds.
1. The Clean Eating Diet focuses on eating clean with no added sugars, salts or chemicals. This diet may be difficult for some to adhere to. Transition slowly, eating less salt, sugar and processed foods. The diet abstains from processed foods and encourages lots of vegetables, fruits, water, and lean meats.
2. Dash Diet is a very good diet that focuses on healthy foods, particularly, heart-healthy foods. It’s a plant-focused diet—rich in fruits and vegetables, nuts, low-fat and non-fat dairy, lean meats, fish and poultry. Developed as a diet to help lower blood pressure, it’s also a diet that will help you lose weight.
3. Fitness4Her Diet the no-calorie counting diet that will help you love healthy food in a whole new way. You get to indulge in 5 meals per day. Smaller portions are the key to losing weight, but you’re never hungry because your next meal is only a couple of hours away. Based on the Fitness4Her principles of healthy eating, this diet encourages lots of vegetables and fruits, lean meats, and low fat and non-fat dairy. It discourages alcohol, caffeine, added sugars and salts. Processed foods are replaced with fresh, nutritious foods. This diet plan comes in 3 parts, diet, exercise and journaling. Keeping a fitness journal instills accountability and is more likely to help you succeed than dieting and exercise alone.
4. Flexitarian Diet for vegetarians who eat meat occasionally, the Flexitarian adds flexibility to your diet. It claims to be healthier for you than a strictly vegetarian diet because eating small amounts of meat will supply the protein needed for a more nutritionally-balanced diet.
5. Mediterranean Diet is popular for those who enjoy healthy, flavorful food. Emphasis is given to replacing fats like butter with healthy olive oil. A diet that consists mostly of vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains with smaller portions of lean meats and very little red meat. Replacing table salt with fresh herbs and spices to season your food.
6. New Nordic Diet isn’t really new, but it is a diet that offers a wide variety of foods. It’s based on whole foods that are filling and keep you satisfied from meal to meal. The diet includes foods that are rich in fiber and protein and while the Mediterranean diet is based on olive oil, the New Nordic diet is built around heart-healthy canola oil. Limited salt and sugar is key to this diet that has been proven to improve cardiovascular health.
7. Weight Watchers Diet is one of the oldest and most successful diets, and offers wonderful support. Working with a nutrition-point system, rather than calorie counting, it gives members a sensible and healthful eating plan with a variety of recipes that can be made at home and pre-portioned foods that can be purchased.
Every year there are a dozens of claims from celebrities and spokespeople, exclaiming the success they have had with the latest diet that is trending. It’s sometimes difficult to know what to believe. Some diets are extreme and should be avoided. Be sure that the diet you choose includes the proper nutrition you need for a healthy body.
Dare To Succeed
Success is the result of small steps taken each day. The sum total of all that you do shows in every accomplishment. One of the reasons success is so sweet is because it is not something that is easy to attain. Success is the result of your desire, your vision, your hard work and perhaps most importantly, your perseverance. Is there something you would like to accomplish? Are you ready to commit? Do you dare to succeed?
The definition of success is different for everyone, especially women. From making your family happy to being healthy and in control, women find success in the areas where they can make a difference. Women have come a long way in dictating their own success and their definition of success is always changing. But that is true for most accomplishments; once achieved, we usually aim for something greater.
Taking your fitness level to a new high is a great example of success. Each step you take, each goal you make, each record you break, brings you closer to your goal and makes you successful each and every day. You only need to look at where you started to notice how very far you have come.
If you have ever tried to lose weight and lost the battle, this time will be different. Make a promise to yourself to not give up. If you don’t give up, you will succeed. There is no other alternative. Just keep trying and your diet and exercise routine will become easier. Cravings for food will go away. Muscle soreness will alleviate. You will become slimmer, trimmer, stronger and fit. Just don’t give up.
Many of us are as afraid of success as we are of failure. It seems like such a crazy thing to say. But it is true. We hesitate to commit to a fitness program because we have failed in the past and are afraid of failing again. But what is failing but a misstep in your road to success? Failing is only a pitfall, not a life sentence. Each day, each hour, each moment, you have the power to succeed. Don’t be afraid of failure and never be afraid of success. Just don’t give up.
Success is measured by each step that we take. It is a journey, not a windfall. Perhaps that is why we appreciate it so much, once we reach it. My hope for you is that you make a commitment to follow your dreams and take the steps necessary to reach your goals for your own personal success.