Help Keeping Your New Year Resolutions Part 4

Focus again!

I have said focus is a big factor for not reaching a goal.  People will make excuses and blame their failure on not doing the right kind of workout or diet. Yes, this in a way is a factor but this factor is easy to change, a personal trainer, the internet, this blog, books and magazine will help.  A personal trainer is always going to be your best bet to any fitness goal.  You can read or watch videos to you heart's content but you can still be doing the exercise wrong and it's a Personal Trainers role to fix that.  Plus a great Personal Trainer will help with the factor of staying focused with positive comments and advice.  Talking about focus, back to the topic in had and more on Personal Trainers at a later date.

In the first part we looked at obstacles that stop us focuing, you will see that many obstacles are mental obstacles.  It;s about choosing to be in the room mentally as well as physically, if you develop this you'll see immediate improvements in your fitness levels and body.  You will start pushing yourself more and more.  You will notice that you start to become less stressed as your brain begins to train itself to focus on positive things and not the negative aspects of your life.  As the saying goes:

A healthy body is a healthy mind!

Unless you choose to focus mentally on the challenge at hand you will never be able to push yourself physically, as the mind is normally the first thing to falter in any workout or challenge.  If you think you can't lift a weight or run 10k, you'll never lift that weight or run 10k etc.  You will get nowhere unless you mentally overcome it!  The mind is a powerful tool and if any doubts or uncertainties pop up in your mind you need to refocus on the job at hand.  Think about the positive things you have done all ready, things you have overcome and you will see there is not just a way around the doubts, uncertainties and obstacles but a path straight through it.  Take the bull by the horns and wrestle it to the ground.

What I'm saying is focus in a positive way and you will be amazed at what you can do!