Live Healthy By Walking

Many people are looking for changes in their lives. They are searching the Internet; they are talking with their friends, family and even strangers; and they are going to religious services to seek out how to make a change and have a different life.

However, in the beginning taking charge of our life can become a difficult task to accomplish. My experience in taking charge of my life was fun in the beginning, hard in the middle and then once accomplished forgetting about the long term effects of the change.  It is like a dieter that starts a diet, loses the weight they wanted, was proud and healthier, then went back to their old eating habits and gained the weight back. 

A dieter like this is shocked when they wake up one morning and see their weight back and shouts: ”What happened, I thought I took off this weight?” Yes, they did take the weight off and felt great and went back to their old life and the weight was back. My change had to do with medical problems and establishing an exercise program to walk once again. It was hard, but do you know what made the difference in my life?  It contained 3 steps in processing a written plan for me to establish in my mind.

1) Why do I want to change this in my life – write down your answer!
2) What is my motivation and what is my commitment – write down your answer!
3) Start at that very moment – don’t say “I’ll start this weekend”.  Don’t do that – start immediately at this moment.

I will share my walking motivation statement with you as an illustration of creating a motivation statement.  I read this each and every day and it motivates me to get up and move by body by walking. Don’t use abstract language-make it personal. The “who”, “what”, “why” and “when” language needs to be incorporated; such as:

“My motivation is I do not want to ever go back to sitting around and inviting major medical problems to take control of my body and my attitude because I enjoy being the very best person I can be for my family. I never want to forget how I had to crawl around on the floor of my house to get from one room to another because of bursitis in my hips hurt so bad; I don’t ever want to forget how my blood sugar as a diabetic was always high; how breathing was very difficult for me and when I got fluid in my left lung and getting pneumonia because of my non-activity. I am motivated to never ever let that happen again in my life because it was my fault. Carrie Latet says: ”Walking gets the feet moving, the blood moving, the mind moving”.  Movement is life and that is my motivation. When you are move – you are enjoying life.”  

It doesn’t matter what you are trying to change; however, it is for sure that it takes determination, commitment and motivation. After you establish your 3 processes in making changes in your life – read them every day even after you have accomplished what you wanted to change.