Bad decisions are often nothing more than a lack of consideration. If you’re not focusing on your goals and what a particular choice will mean once it’s made it’s just that much easier to make a left when you should have made a right.
Every time I sit down to order my dinner, I have a choice. When I drop into a gas station for a drink before work, I have a choice. When the customer asks me what sounds good for lunch, I have a choice. Heck, even when I don’t think I have a choice, I still have a choice.
What choices do you have? Do you carefully weigh all the options or do you listen to your body? I do a little too much of the latter. If I’ve just worked out, my body is screaming for sugar. What it might mean is that it has a secondary protein need that’s sitting directly behind the carb request, but that’s not what you’re hearing when you sit down to your very next meal.
Since it seems that too often that pause-and-consider moment isn’t happening I’ve decided to try a different approach: forced consideration.
Before I make any choices about food (or activity), I’m going to very deliberately pull out my iPhone and open up my new ‘Choices’ album. There I’m going to find inspirational pictures. Don’t laugh, seriously.
Jason Statham in The Transporter (reminder to do my back exercises)
Some Chick with Huge Guns (because mine need to be at least as awesome)
This Zumba Ad with The Future Me in the Middle
Me at the Lightest I’ve Been (300 lbs)
What inspires you?
