Our treadmill wouldn’t fit into the room it’s supposed to go into in our new house without being taken apart (4 different guys tried getting it in on Saturday without taking it apart and it didn’t work).
We haven’t had time to make that happen yet, so instead, we set it up in the hallway for the time being so that I can still exercise until Jesse has a chance to take the treadmill apart and get it into the workout room.
Is it ideal, no. But it works and it means I’m getting in a run every day — even while we’re in the middle of getting settled into our new house.
It’s so easy to make excuses and not do something because the set up or conditions aren’t ideal. We can rationalize that we will get on a budget when we make more money. Or we say that we’ll invite people to come over for dinner when we have a more organized home. Or we’ll sign up for that workout class when we can start getting up earlier.
It’s so easy to make excuses and wait for perfect conditions. The truth is, the perfect conditions are probably not coming. So instead of pining away our life waiting for them, let’s just get up and start doing the best we can — creating a budget based upon our current salary, inviting a friend over for coffee and letting that motivate us to clean up a little bit, or setting our alarm clock earlier and going to bed earlier so we can actually make that early morning workout class.
No more excuses. Start today. Your conditions might never be ideal, but today is a great day to stop waiting around and starting doing some of those things you plan and hope to do in the future.
Crystal! I think this is just what “ I “ needed! I’ve been waiting for just the right time to start on something’s since last year and I BELIEVE the time is now thanks to you.
Thanks you for that swift kick I needed to push me onward.
I’m so grateful that this encouraged you!
This made me laugh and brought back memories when we moved into our house and thought our oak desk would fit in the small bedroom downstairs that we converted to a den. No such luck. We ended up taking the door frame off and it squeezed in! We put the frame and door back up, knowing that the desk was going to stay in their for good. We recently removed the door and casing and replaced it with a barn door…took us 20 years to figure out a solution!!!
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I’m curious to know why you don’t run outside! I live in Michigan, where we have snow for like 4 months out of the year, but I’ve still managed to run outside every day since Thanksgiving (and I haven’t fallen on the ice once!). I get so excited when it’s “warm” outside for my runs – in other words, 32* or warmer! It’s awful when you have to do a longer run in temps below freezing (also a little exhilarating because you feel so hardcore), but I think running outside is a billion jillion times more fun than a treadmill! I really don’t know how you do it – I am very slow on a treadmill and can’t last more than a mile or two! I imagine in Tennessee it’s not very cold, so like I said, I’m just curious why you don’t opt for outside.
For a lot of reasons — the biggest of which is that logistically it works better because I can stop and go help a child who needs me, etc. And I just don’t like running outside unless I’m running with my husband (which is something that we just are choosing not to prioritize right now in our life).
I love this…way to stay committed. Running outside can be a good option too =)
Wonderful. I heard some one say ” Stop making excuses – and make adjustments” this is a perfect example of that!
Thank you!!!
Such a good saying!
Sometimes “not ideal” turns out to be pretty good too. I decided to commit to running again this year and the only ways I could make it work in our family schedule are in ways that I thought would throw off my day and go almost completely counter to “scheduling wisdoms” (mostly late afternoons), but it’s worked out better than I ever expected. It’s even solved several problems I’ve had with workout/running routines in the past. It would be going much better if my family didn’t keep getting sick though (it’s been an unusually rough season for us in that regard).
I love that! Thanks for sharing!
Mentally I commit myself to running 25 miles per week–I’d love for it to be 30 but I don’t know where that extra 50 minutes is going to come from so 25 it is. Tonight I started running at 8:05 and wrapped up just before 9. Not ideal but I got it done and as a bonus I had a great shower and will sleep great tonight. I will admit that I was an ER junkie back in the day and the entire series is now on Hulu, so I get my trash tv fix in as well.
Woohoo! Way to go!