Global Courant
For years, the fitness industry, the government and others have been telling the public to exercise and eat healthy. They talked about the consequences of what would happen if they didn’t. What is the result of all this? We got fatter. We have more fitness facilities, weight loss programs, weight loss foods, diets, exercise equipment and more than ever before. We got fatter.
The baby boom generation would be the one that would get and stay fit and healthy. They would stay young. They got fatter. As a fellow Boomer, it’s crazy that my generation (the one that was going to make a difference in society and focus on youthfulness) is now unhealthy, fat and old.
The younger generation is even worse, because they started being unhealthy early on. So many young people just sit at home and watch TV, play computer games or interact with their smart devices. They are not motivated like me and many others during our childhood. We wanted to play outside and had to be dragged back inside by our mothers.
Motivation to get healthy and fit has simply disappeared in society these days; except for a few who still want it. I don’t blame those who are not motivated. They may have no reason why. And this mindset started years before many of them were born. It was after World War II and into the 1950s when the focus became a life of leisure. We would have moving sidewalks so we wouldn’t have to strain to move. We would have faster food choices, including the TV dinner (and later fast food). It was all about the easy life. From the late 1960s until now, our food supply has changed, as has the way we ate. In the 1970s, farmers were subsidized to grow corn products, leading to cheaper sugars (high fructose corn syrup). Life changed and another generation helped fuel this change. Nowadays we cook less at home and eat out more. We move less and sit more. It’s time for change.
We can take back control of our own lives and those of our children. It’s all about motivation. And that motivation starts with the ‘reason why’. Without a “reason why,” we simply won’t take the necessary steps to get started in health and fitness. All action begins with how we think and believe.
Here are three keys that will help you “kick-start” your motivation to get healthy and fit:
- Identify your personal “reason why” you want to get healthy and fit. It must be emotionally strong enough. Maybe it’s for your kids. In fact, our children are more affected by our actions than by what we tell them. Another “reason why” could be health-related, including avoiding getting heart disease, diabetes, or other lifestyle-related illnesses.
- Create a vision board of what being healthy and fit means to you. Steven Covey, in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, spoke of starting any goal with “the end in mind”. A vision board gives you a visual representation of the result of being healthy and fit. It creates more clarity and reality for you.
- Whenever you have any thoughts about health and fitness, take immediate action. When you do, it will help create a neuroconnection and anchor that thought in your subconscious. Every time you do it, the connection gets stronger and leads to the creation of a habit.
Getting healthy and fit is your right. It is also about taking personal responsibility. Take the first action to discover your “reason why” and move on to the rest. JUST DO IT!
Three keys to help you get motivated to get healthy and fit
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