A common phrase said by all.

The difference that separates the people who get what they want from the ones that don’t, is the motives, actions, and patterns that are associated with that thought.

Everybody feels it.

What’s the determining factor?

Mindset.

Always.

It’s always the mindset.

With everything and anything.

Followed closely by the strategy.

True momentum is about maintaining the same actions through the storms so to speak.

A storm can last for days, weeks, even years…

What happens if, in that time, the emotional monkeys are allowed to dictate your actions.

Sure, you’ll feel ‘happy’ short-term… ( will you really?)

But, but but but, in the long run.

Lethargy.
Body fat cumulation.
Muscle degeneration.
Low mood.
Low self-worth.
Procrastination.
Victim mentality (always tired, the weather is horrible).
Controlled by external influences (people and circumstances).

Colorful language alert, F**K THAT for a barrel of laughs.

Who really wants that?

Nobody, honestly, nobody.

The breakthrough out of that?

Mindset, ownership, action.

You might say, ‘But I’m good when I feel good’…

That’s as useful as paper pants.

When you feel good from time to time, is always going to be a ‘new start’.

Who wants to make the same start 10 times in a year?

That treads on the toes of the crucial principle of momentum for sustainable success…

It’s ok to feel crap, it’s ok to have to adapt, it’s ok to feel whatever it is that you feel, however maintaining a mental system that prevents those feelings from changing your habits to essentially the ones that create the opposite of what you want is the BEST WAY to feel even more s**t.

Because it breaks momentum through not showing up for yourself when you need it the most.

It’s when the sun is shining and everything is hunky-dory, great, ride that wave as long as possible.

You have to be ready to get smashed in the chops by that wave at any point.

This will help you maintain momentum through those hard parts.

It’s easy to be extra self-critical, harsh to ourselves, to slip into the victim child mode, to want to just ‘chill’ (is that ‘chill’ truly chill, or is it justification to hide) when we are up against it.

The paradox is this.

They are the best parts for growth, development, and success.

That’s when you find out what you are made of.

Don’t take the small things for granted and the impact they can have on your life.

The small things are a significant part of our day-to-day comings and goings.

How well we manage them is the pattern we create for ourselves.

Here’s what to do regarding your health, fitness, and wellbeing management during a s**t storm:

Pull out your life mantra, read it (we get lost when we lose direction).
Talk to yourself as if you are talking to a friend…that you care about.
Re-establish the basics (The stepping stones of the systems that make that mantra real).
GOALS…long term, medium, and short.
Re-implement the basics right away (schedule, plan, show up).
Reflect on your progress of what you have made, not what you think you have not.
Forget what others say (even though people can want to help, often they can fuel the victim mentality as an attempt to help).
Stop comparing to others (especially on social media).
Take things one step at a time.
Keep things in context.

That lot will help keep things moving along, it’ll give logic the power, disarm the power of negative emotions, maintain momentum by linking the good times to the good times, and most important of all…

It’ll help you maintain self-worth, personal confidence, and a healthy state.

Don’t feel sorry for yourself, look up, get up, and crack on, nobody is going to do it for you.

No excuses.

Smash it.

– Coach Paul