Let me ask you a personal question: How much are you paying every month for your gym membership? And how often do you actually use it?
I have a gym membership, and rarely use it. The reason I still have it is it is only $20 a year and I play racquetball at the gym and occasionally swim. But most people are paying 20, 30, 40+ dollars a month for their gym membership and hardly use it. Even if you are the person who uses a $40/mo gym membership everyday, you still need to drive out to the location, and then drive back home and God knows what hours of the day you are fitting that in. On top of that, in order to go when it is most convenient (7 am or 5 pm) you have to go with everyone else that finds that time to be convenient.
I am shocked that more people don’t workout at home. You can get an amazing workout in with ZERO equipment. You can do a complete body weight workout in your garage, living room, park next to your house, ANYWHERE! And if you invest a little money (still far less than you have invested in a gym) you can purchase some killer equipment to supplement your at home workout.
Really think about your gym membership and ask yourself truthfully, “Do I really use it enough or can I workout at home and get the same results, if not better?”. Try working out at home for one week and see what happens. You may be surprised.
Pepsi is doing a promotion where they are granting over 1 million dollars in prize money to different organizations or idea makers. One of the organizations running is the SDSU Fitness clinic for individuals with disabilities. I cannot say enough good this about this program. I had the honor of working with them during my bachelor work at SDSU and am still in awe about the people I met, and the programs they run. It is truly an amazing organization and deserve every bit of the 25k they are up for. They will use the money for scholarships for individuals in the program.
Please take a moment out of your date to vote for them. It is quick and easy and could mean the world to an individual.
Graduation time is here. Whether you are graduating from high school, college, or kindergarten, a graduation means ending one milestone, and embarking on another. Here is one of the greatest commencement speeches I personally have ever heard. Congrats to all the graduates, including my little sister who graduated from high school:
The world is moving at an incredibly fast rate. People are trying to get more things accomplished in a smaller amount of time. There are books, seminars, and websites that lay out productivity plans to get people to get things done. People partake in elaborate plans before taking actions. Pre-meetings to plan for a meeting, then post-meetings to wrap up the meeting. 10,000 inboxes. Someday lists. But are people really getting more done or just setting up ways to get things done without actually getting things done?
I have read David Allen’s Getting Things Done book, as well as read a few “productivity” blogs on out to set yourself up to get things accomplish. am always amazed at the complex systems they create. Some of the ideas are actually not to bad. But all of them seem to miss the one step in getting things done: TAKING ACTION. I have found a getting things done technique that actually get things done. I call it the NIKE method: JUST DO IT.
Yes, it is really that simple to get things done. Just get them done. Don’t read a book on how to get things done because things don’t get done. Don’t make excuses. Don’t meet before AND after a meeting. Don’t set up an elaborate system to get things processed because things don’t get done. Just get the thing you want done completed. Don’t delegate it to someone else (unless it truly is their job). Don’t put it in the “someday” list. Don’t throw it in a “project” folder. Don’t create “next steps”. Just get it done already. There is no better time than right now than to get that project finished. Put your head down and do work.
The same goes for diet and exercise. You can read how to do cardio, weights, run, walk, whatever it is till you are blue in the face. But just reading will not get you healthy. You can read about South Beach, Atkins, and whatever other B.S. people feed you, but not taking action will not product results.
Stop planning and start doing! Today is the best day to do it.
