29 Mar Priorities
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately, and I recently read a little snippet that really hit home for me, mostly because I know excuses are easy to come by. Basically this little tidbit of wisdom was this:
“Before you make an excuse, try phrasing it with “this is not a priority for me”; just see how that feels for you”
The person who proposed this idea went on to explain how when you are making an excuse to not work out, you are actually saying that working out is not a priority for you. It eliminates the rationalization factor; by saying “I don’t have time to go to the gym today” you are really saying “going to the gym is not a priority for me today”, if you honestly don’t have time for 30 minutes of a treadmill, or a few sun salutations or even 15 minutes of squats, lunges and planks, then saying that is not a priority shouldn’t be too hard to state.
Realistically, we make time for the things we deem important. Even people who don’t like to get up early will do so if the cause is important enough. Make fitness a priority for you and see if you don’t follow through on your workout plans more often.
The same can help with your diet. If you make eating healthy a generally important part of your life, the choices start to make themselves. To apply the statement “this is not a priority for me” is fairly easy to do; for example, you can spend your Sunday at brunch and maybe lay around on the couch instead of meal prepping for the week ahead, that is a choice. Apply the statement that eating healthy in the upcoming week is not a priority for me. How does that sit for you?
Maybe you are an expert at rationalization, and the phrasing makes no difference to you, you are going to make the choices even if you have to admit that being healthy is not a priority for you. That’s okay too. You have to be true to you.
Every day we make decisions, conscious choices, to live healthier lives, or not. But for many of us, it is a choice. One which we get to make every day, several times. Chose wisely.
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