I have to be honest - although I exercise a lot (yoga every day, run 3-4 times per week and walk several miles daily), I don't really "do" the gym. In winter, when it's freezing and slippery outside, I sometimes renew my membership for a few months (the gym I go to doesn't have a tie-in, so apart from the joining fee, it's pretty painless to join/leave whenever suits). I inevitably end up fed up with either the travel commitment, being indoors, doing the same old stuff in the same old place or a combination of the above! Last week, I suddenly remembered that the gym also offer day passes, and I fancied a change, so yesterday I bought one and headed off for an hour and a half. Something that struck me after I left was that all of the people I saw there pretty much without exception (I wasn't looking that closely) were fit. That's to say, there didn't appear to be anyone there who was starting their fitness journey. Obviously, this could have been an anomoly - maybe if I'd have gone at a different time and/or on a different day, I would have made a different observation. When you've been a member of a gym over several winters, you do notice that at the start of January, the place is packed with people and by the end of March, numbers have dwindled again. So, what's my point after all this rambling? It's been many years since I've made an official New Year's Resolution. I've become a firm believer in resolving to make a necessary change as things come up. What is a resolution but a promise to yourself to make a change for the better in your life? I started running in April 2014. I started a running streak in May 2017. I decided to decrease my meat consumption in October 2017. I decided to stop drinking alcohol on 15th June this year. In fact, the only thing I can remember starting on 1st January recently was a "yoga streak" that I've been on this year. Now that's become a way of life, and I hope that I will continue to do yoga every day. I'm also currently on a streak of 10k steps per day, which started in May this year. So, my friend, don't wait until January 1st. If you do, you might keep making excuses (I have a hangover, maybe?) or lose motivation because iyou were only ever going through the "New Years Resolution" motions. In the words of Gilbert & Sullivan "these divisions of time are purely arbitrary." If you want to do it, just do it!
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