Adina’s Cute & Perky Blog!

So, I was walking in the gym yesterday and was stopped by the gym manager with this question, “Adina, the glass is half full or half empty.”

He was giving this knowing look to his friend, as if he knew which answer I would say.  You see I’m perky.  Cut me and I would bleed daisies.  Really.  I’m annoyingly perky.  With that said, he was waiting for me to say “half-full,” because isn’t that what perky people say?  Isn’t that our calling in life?  To remind people that it’s ALWAYS half full.

But my answer surprised him.  I walked by, glanced down at the, OK, half full protein shake and said, “Who cares?  Drink it.”

You see, that’s the problem.  We think far too much.  Some things don’t require thought.  Especially in fitness.  You just do things.

I have seen so many people think themselves right out of a diet.  For days they walk around thinking and planning rather than doing.  They are mentally exhausted before they even start. 

I have seen people with pencil and paper meticulously charting and planning fitness goals.  Again, planning so long they never actually start.  They frustrate themselves.

I’ve seen people start elaborate grocery lists for these elaborate diets they are thinking about starting.  They never start, because they overwhelm themselves with the thinking rather than the doing.

I’ve seen people at the gym get half the workout in twice the time because they think too hard.   They look for empty machines and try to find the perfect two machines open at the perfect times.  Then they come to a complete standstill when someone else gets on one of their machines.  All because they MUST go by the chart they thought out.

Fitness is not about thinking.  It’s about doing.

And let me tell you the perky girl’s secret.  Sometimes it’s half full and sometimes it’s half empty.  If it’s medicine, it’s half empty.  It’s almost gone!  If it’s something I like, it’s half full.  I have a lot of it left to go!

Whether it’s half empty of half full….don’t think it, just drink it!
 

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