When You Fall Down, Get Back Up

photo credit: Simon Pais-Thomas

“Be mis­er­able. Or moti­vate your­self. What­ever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” — Wayne Dyer

We all have moments when we fall down (and not just phys­i­cally). Men­tally, we can fall too. Or we might stop doing some­thing that is good for us. Phys­i­cal exer­cise is one area that can be easy to let “fall by the way­side”. And pretty soon, we’re eat­ing poorly, sit­ting in front of the tele­vi­sion, and not get much phys­i­cal exer­cise. This hap­pened to me over the last cou­ple of weeks. I had taken a planned break from my resis­tance train­ing sched­ule after just com­plet­ing the cur­rent exer­cise pro­gram I had been doing. And, due to school sched­ules, I also wasn’t bik­ing to work (my car­dio cur­rently). What started as a planned week off quickly turned into well over two weeks of very lit­tle phys­i­cal activity.

This can hap­pen so easy. The key is what we do when this does hap­pen. We all have the power to choose. We can choose to get up an hour ear­lier, or choose to stay up later, or choose to make exer­cise (in this case) a priority.

For me, I made the choice this morn­ing. I woke up an hour ear­lier (and didn’t actu­ally go back to bed) and made my way down to our base­ment work­out room. Once I got going, I felt exhil­er­ated, and by the time I fin­ished, I was pumped. What a great way to start the day! Now I must just con­tinue to make the choice of exer­cise as a priority.

This is a choice we can all make, and I encour­age you all to get out there and do it (no mat­ter what “it” is to you).

Today I will __________. Fill in the blank, and then choose to get out there and do it!

Lance writes sto­ries from his heart, aim­ing to inspire and moti­vate, as you align more fully with YOUR true peak. When he’s not here, you can find him hang­ing out with his fam­ily, rid­ing a bike, or just gen­er­ally act­ing goofy.   Sign up for the Thoughts from the Tree­house newslet­ter and get addi­tional inspi­ra­tion in your email inbox!

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