Optimal Health Choices – Primary Goals and Secondary choices

So once you work out your long term or “Primary Goal” you have to fuel it with the choices that you make along the way.  These are “Secondary Choices”.  So it begins by breaking down your goal over time.  With health and weight loss I would begin with a year.  So you primary goal defines where in a year you want to be.  You attach vision, emotion and purpose to that goal.  You picture it in your mind and often people are assisted by creating a collage of what that life would look like.

Now it is time to figure out how to get there.  If my goal is a fitness oriented goal what is in the way of getting it done.  First maybe is my current condition of my physical body.  If I had not been working out then I need to start slow enough to not hurt myself right out of the shoot.  Begin with increasing movement and adding a little bit at a time.

There is however a mental set of goals as well here.  What am I going to do to get my butt out the door on the days I don’t feel like it?  Oh it is too cold or too hot out, or I think I am coming down with something, whatever the reason, what will get you to go anyway?  For me I had a list of the things that would not change if I didn’t keep working on them.  For others it may be a list of the people they told they would do this or their blog readers, or just one more look in the mirror that says, “I can’t keep looking like this.”    But trust me there will be mornings that you need something extra to get you out the door.

Perhaps one other thing that most people don’t take the time to think through is the idea of what we are going to do when we fail.  What if I eat something I shouldn’t?  What if I don’t work out today?  What if there is a special occasion and today I just choose not to be on program?  What do you do after those choices?  I know the old me would lean towards losing faith in myself and my plan.  The old me would slowly but surely start to give up.   What I found out was that doesn’t work.  One thing that works for me is to stop for a moment and look at the choice and the consequences and decide what I was willing to give up.

From there I need to look at why this was even a consideration at this stage of my plan and what my next move would be.  Whatever I decided I needed to learn where I was in my journey so I could move on.  No time for regret or excuses.  No time for self pity or loathing.  Just time to make another step, reset my goals, monitor the results of my choice and move on.

Clear you mind daily.  Decide to live life on purpose and stop letting life direct you.  We all make some mistakes.  We all have victories and defeats.  It is what we do with both that effect how we will live and love our lives.  Use your secondary choices to reset your track to your primary goal and you will get there and have the life you worked for.

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