Make an Appointment with Your Best Self....and keep it!

I train kettlbells on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays....without fail. I train on Tuesdays starting at 6:15am, Thursdays, starting at 5:30am and Saturdays starting at 6:45...without fail. I practice yoga on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays....whoops...do I?  Am I consistent?  What time do I schedule my yoga?  Oh, that's where the problem lies!  I have too many choices, I mean, I give myself too many choices as to which yoga class time fits best into my morning.  Giving myself too many choices to "put it off" lets procrastination set in, and then I "get busy" doing other things.  But in my defense I almost always make it to the last class my schedule will allow...I'm hating it because it's late and I'm hungry, but I can usually force myself to go, because at that point I have no choice.

Lately though I've had to make a few other appointments, like the eye doctor, a haircut, etc and I scheduled them in the morning. Why would I do that?  Because with the best of intention I figured I could make it to an earlier yoga class still giving me enough time to get to these additional appointments.  I'm 50% successful.  The other 50%?  It seems as if I've let my priorities slip, or I'm not planning enough in advance to be successful at keeping my promise to myself.  The promise of being my best self.  There truly is enough time because we can make time.

I know a lot of people have kids involved in sports, and those kids have to show up for practice, or they don't get to play in the game, right?  Parents are usually really good at getting those kids to practice and where they need to be, and when they need to be there.  As adults our training, our exercise, is our practice!  Pick a day (s) and a time (s), and without fail get your ass to practice!  We want for our kids to be superstar athletes, and we know practicing a sport or skill is key to improvement, but maybe we forget, or think it's too late for, our own wanting to feel like a superstar.

As a Kettlebell Instructor I teach a number of classes as well as meet with a number of private appointments.  When I ask my clients/students whether or not they made time to train during the week I don't see them more times than not the answer is no!  Nope.  They didn't make time to train, to exercise, or to practice not one other time.  Really?  Why not?  So I started to think about the answer to that question.

They didn't do it for the same reason my yoga practice is slipping.  They probably gave themselves too many choices until it was too late!  Procrastination.  Procrastination is intention without action.  We've talked about this before, haven't we?

Make time.  Schedule it.  No choices.  No forgetting. Write it down as if it were an appointment and keep it.

OK, so what is your new schedule?