Fitness is about the only area in my life where I don’t have a set of super-specific goals, and a list of actions needed to reach them. In business, I have daily, weekly, quarterly, and even 1- 3- and 10-year goals (Have 1 million people in my database! Make a system of funnels and products that will make people want to join that list! Launch 1 funnel a month! Start funnel #1!). It’s been my experience, and that of enough other people that there’s a whole library of books on the topic, that it’s these smaller objectives that actually WORK to move us along. Simply saying (or even writing down) at the beginning of the year that I want to make a million dollars by the end of the year isn’t going to do a thing; it’s less a ‘goal’ than it is an attempt to manifest something. Absent the meaningful shorter-term objectives that can be meaningfully worked on, the big goal gets swamped in the tsunami of, well, day-to-day life But I’ve never applied the same thinking to my health. I
When I started going back to the gym last week, I braced myself for the same 30+ days of aches and pains that I’d experienced 18 months ago, when I got serious about working out for the first time in years. As it turns out, my sporadic runs at fitness during the intervening time actually HAVE done me some good. Yes, the first couple of days were rough—in fact, I spent most of my Saturday last week laying in bed and groaning (but only AFTER I got my yoga class out of the way)—but with the help of a morning dose of ibuprofen each day, I gotta say, it’s not so bad. I attend a “bootcamp” (lots of reps of light-ish weights, lots of jumping up and down, all with very little time in between) 3 times a week. I was smart enough to tell the instructor that I was going to ease back into it—20 minutes the first day, 25 the second, and so on—but on Wednesday, I was a 40 of the 50 or so minutes. I still have to t