It’s the age old say of “if you fail to plan then you plan to fail”. I’ve been there and done that time and time again and I’ve also learnt the important lessons along the way.
Life is relatively simple, yet we, human kind complicate things by blaming anything or everything for our short comings. When it fact it’s us letting ourselves down and not having the integrity to accept the responsibility and be accountable for our actions. But it doesn’t have to be that way, it’s all about the choices we make remember.
2010 is going to be unlike any other year for me. I’m not going to pay for a coach to help me out with all things nutrition and training. Instead I’m spreading my wings and flying solo. Over the last five years I’ve learnt enough, researched enough and studied enough to know what works and what doesn’t for me and my body. I’m now confident enough to try it alone and succeed or fail it really doesn’t matter. Not to me anyway. What matters is that I try and continue moving in a forward direction. Like I always say, nothing ventured nothing gained. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain by this experience. It’s my body and I’ll do with it as I please because what I do doesn’t effect anyone else.
So I’ve sat down and worked out a training and nutrition plan for 2010. It’s the first time I’ve used periodisation in conduction with my training and nutrition and that’ll be done over three stages throughout the course of the year. Three different training programs. Three different nutrition programs. All in all it’s actually quite exciting because it’s something different to what I’ve done in the past. Something else that will also be different is that I’m not doing this alone. Team Halsall has paired up again and we’ll both be working together for the entire year towards our health and fitness goals. We’re both looking forward to the new year and the many challenges we’re both faced with, it’ll be fun and neither of us can wait to get started.
It’s December so I’ve been busily working in the background researching and preparing everything for the new year. I plan to succeed! This year I lost half the body fat I wanted to lose and then stagnated due to my lack of self-discipline and consistency. I’m not a quitter so I went back to good old faithful drawing board to work out next years health and fitness goals. From there I was able to work out a plan to finish what I’d started this year once and for all.
Little by little step by step I know I’ll achieve my goals. I’ve done it before and I can do it again. Just because it wasn’t in the original time frame doesn’t mean it’s a failure. I’ve already achieved 50% of my original goal, that’s certainly no failure. Life happens to everyone, and you can guarantee life will throw hurdles in your path to see if you can make it over them or whether you’ll kneecap yourself and simply give up. Failure’s not an option, not now, not ever. I don’t care how many times life kneecaps me it’s nothing a bandaid won’t fix for the interim. There is no excuse for not moving forward. I certainly didn’t use the loss of both my parents last year as an excuse so dig deep, make a plan and join me in achieving our goals together.
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