The hardest decision you'll ever make is a simple yes or no. Here's why:

James Harris
Jul 27, 2016
3 min read

We make decisions every day. Some good, some bad, but in the end they're all decisions we have to live with.

Every decision you make changes your life for better or worse.

This is the most important one you need to be conscious of.

How you decide to look at your life generally determines your success

Today can be a great day if you choose to make it one.

Terrible things happen every day. Luckily, for every terrible thing happening in the world, there are generally 10 good things happening all around you.

You wake up late, miss breakfast, and have a poor start to the day.

You could let this ruin the rest of your day or write it off as a bad start and continue on making the day better.

Here's some things you may miss if you choose to focus on missing breakfast:

You can afford to buy a breakfast if needed
You woke up in a bed, under a roof, with food in your fridge and blankets over your feet
You you probably have a car, bus pass, or access to some mode of transportation outside of walking everywhere all the time
You have a family, a job (or can get one pretty easily), friends, health, and the ability to make your future better
You are the 1% of the population who are imaginable beyond any stretch of the imagination for the rest of the world

That's a lot of really great stuff that has happened or is happening and all you did was miss breakfast.

We all make choices about our lives everyday. How we choose to look at the world generally determines how happy we are.

If the world is all gloom and doom, it may be because something bad happened - maybe directly to us or to someone we love.

In that same thought, we still choose whether or not we focus our lives around those event.

We can look at the world as a prison full of hatred, depression, and isolation, and unfairness.

We can take our world for what it is. A place where bad things sometimes happen, but good things happen way more often.

It's our choice whether or not we want to celebrate those things, work to improve the world, improve ourselves, and the lives of those around us.

How does this relate to fitness?

In the past, clients have come in, worked hard, seen good progress in body composition changes, strength, cardiovascular health, and overall wellbeing. They've have nearly come to point of tears out of frustration that they didn’t see “magazine style” progress in their first two months even after explaining how physical change happens and explaining how photoshop works.

They negate the fact that they’ve made solid progress towards a healthier lifestyle while adding in strength training, cardio, more activities outside the gym, and better eating habits.

We tend to focus on the negative around them and inside themselves and ignore their positive attributions.

In reality, celebrating the “small things” like being more active, eating better, and managing their stress are what are helping them ultimately get to their goals of looking and feeling the way they want to.

Instead of looking at things you need to work on constantly, look at the things you’re doing well and keep pursuing them. They drive you to work harder, learn more, and become the person you want to be in fitness, health, and every area of your life.

The flaws will always be present and can be worked on, but they are not what drive us to keep going. Spend your energy on doing what you love and let it the the force that drives you to do better.

You always have a choice (and not choosing is still a choice).

Yes, I will choose to celebrate the things I do well and work on the things I need to improve.

No, I will diminish my hard work by only focusing where I am now and what I still need to improve.

The decision is yours.

I'll leave it in your hands.