Focus on Connecting Until Success

Appreciate the following quote:

“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The beauty of the quote is that it reflects a great attitude for someone with a huge determination to prove himself first as a bodybuilder, then as an actor, and finally as a public servant. Prior to being Governor of California, Schwarznegger was the Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Some of you may recall taking all kinds of physical fitness tests as youths in school in order to meet guidelines set by the Council. Many of these activities were designed to be fun and they promoted school comradery and spirit. California still has all kinds of state-wide challenges set up. Visit www.calgovcouncil.org/challenge for details.

Better fitness decision making requires more input from more stake-holders. Improving health-care is great but much of it is treating the wounds of poor health decisions. We need to proactively help each other do more to avoid the health care system altogether. So if you and your family are more active tomorrow than you were today, you have just made a better fitness decision - congratulations. I recommend starting with general goals and add specificity as the odds move in your favor.

Being too specific initially with unrealistic goals is similar to walking onto a tennis court (cold) and attempting to continuously hit “winners”. I’ve seen this attempted many times and its not a wise formula for better play long term because the frustrating misses outweigh the satisfaction of one single lucky great shot. Be patient until the odds are in your favor to hit a winner. The sure formula for more consistent fitness decision-making is to move a little more today than you did yesterday. Turn off your monitor and go!