Time to train

I was involved in a motivation workshop yesterday at my new role and I partly put my name down due to the free lunch and partly to learn if there was some other way that I could become motivated that I did not already know about.

The lady presenting the workshop covered all of the standard things that one would expect – rewarding yourself after you complete a task or after a big race (this could involve buying yourself a watch that you wanted or pair of sunnies or simply a new pair of jeans that would not have fit you prior to you starting to train). The area that I did find was lacking though was that of creating time to exercise or run.

Many people in the workshop (and in life) bemoan the fact that they just don’t have the time to run or exercise. My answer to this is that it is very easy to create time IF YOU REALLY WANT TO.

Simple ways that we can do this include to work effectively and to make use of the lunch break to exercise instead of sitting at our desks and eating like a lot of us tend to do. This is easier said than done, but in my experience, if one member of the team heads out for an hour of exercise it is likely to motivate the rest of the team to do similar at some stage. Similarly if people are staying behind during lunch, then more often than not others will also stay inside.

Getting out of bed 30 minutes earlier in the morning can also create just enough time to sneak in a quick run before showering and heading to work. This is a wonderful way to start the day – chance to see the beauty of the sunrise each and every day and to truly wakeup with the birds each morning.

Perhaps the single biggest way of creating time though is that of simply turning the television off and only watching essential programs like the news. An average person in the west watches about 4 hours of television a day – majority of this time merely for the sake of there being something to do. Anyone fence sitting, try turning off the TV for a couple of days solid and wean yourself off this habit. You may find that you will not miss those shows on the box, but your life will also become clearer and you will have so much time on your hands to do all the things that you wanted to do in the past.

Start your regime today – YOU have the power right now to get off that sofa and get out the door and in so doing change your life FOREVER.

Drag the dog, husband, wife, children, partner or hell even the goldfish out the door with you and let’s change the perception of not having time for it! – Sean Muller