New Years Disillusions

For years I have been making new years resolutions… and forgetting them.
I think last year it was to make major progress towards um… some kind of… a life altering thing.

They say your memory goes first but I think new years resolutions go before that.

I make my resolutions in January – finish the easy ones in first week or two and forget about the rest before the month is over. And I am pretty sure you do the same thing. Because there is usually a lot of early morning joggers in the first week of January. Then you realize it’s cold, or you need a little more sleep. You bed exerts a strange mystical power over you and you won’t be doing any more early morning exercise until right around this time next year.

Blame it on whatever you want, we’ve all got excuses. But the underlying truth is still there.

I’m too cold.
You know, I’ll do it tomorrow.
I think I’m getting sick.
I’m too sore from yesterday.
I need more sleep.
It’s too dark outside.
I just don’t think it’s my thing anymore.

But this is what you ought know, we have to have some kind of solution!
We have to be able to tell you where motivation comes from or how to get more of it. [Sarcastic] Yeah.

Here’s a thought. Your always setting your own forgettable goals. So how about This year I do it for you? Okay this year your New Years resolution is to read “Body for Life” by Bill Philips. I know. You are looking at it thinking… it sounds suspiciously like a fitness book.

Yeah It is actually a fitness book and I have never actually read it. I mean, not cover to cover, I have read parts of it. I guess reading it should be my resolution too! I mean I listened to the book on tape. Because you know it was easier to find time for that kind of thing. [Text: He's lazy]

It begins unlike other fitness books with an in-depth discussion of goals, desire, visualization, mind set. It’s all part of what is called by the author calls an “inside out” approach. Because if you really want to change yourself or your life you have to start on the inside. And it turns out the same motivational psychology and goals used for fitness in Body for Life apply to all sorts of things in everyday life.

It might surprise you that a fitness boot is full of insightful, inspirational and even profound bits of wisdom like “Half of getting what you want is knowing what you have to give up to get it.” So true.

And if you manage to internalize what the author is trying to communicate – the idea of how to have goals and set goals – reading it may be the last New Years resolution you ever have. The motivational information alone warrants reading it. Or listening to it. [Text: Yup, lazy] And the fitness information is every bit as good as the psychology part.

So get started early this year on your New Years Resolution. Which was to um… gosh, it was the same as mine. It was uh… [tapping book] I can’t put my finger on it.

[Holding up book with picture of author] My niece says we look alike. I wish we look alike. Look at those guns.

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