Traveling places is like a sickness. Once you get a taste of what other destinations have to offer, you are quick to make your next plan to get the heck out of dodge towards a place you’ve never visited.
The same can apply towards fitness. One day you start your journey and see a progress and then you find yourself wanting to keep going – just to see where you can go.
Sure, it’s a lot harder to get into the act of taking care of your body to build a healthier – one versus packing up your suitcase and booking it to another state/country, but the end results of both are what I’ve come to find rewarding.
If you’re like me you’re starting at the bottom of things, fitness and travel wise. Having my highest weight being 165-170lbs at 5 feet tall at the age of 18yrs, and never to have traveled outside of Texas (from what I can remember). I’ve come to realize that they share something in common. They both have taken a lot of time, and will continue to do so in order to get to a certain destination.
However, hard work isn’t the only way through life, especially with these two particular aspects (fitness: dieting pills, barely eating, etc. travel: hand-outs, blessings from your parents, etc.) It IS a new year, and although you don’t necessarily have to try and become a “new you” – think about possibly creating a new mindset.
Save for a trip, or try sticking with a gym visit each day for two weeks. Brian and I are currently saving for a trip over Spring Break to Georgia/Florida to visit a couple friends, and instead of scrambling at the last second to get money we’re throwing money to the side when we can to get us there – as well as training for a half-marathon in February thanks to a few friends (when we are not the best runners… at all).
My point is, give things a chance to grow on you, or for you to venture out some place remotely different.
I personally want to work for what I have in life, that way I find out what it’s like to make myself proud when I’m hiking up a mountain I’ve saved money for to get to, or when I’m finally able to be the one to see my body and not so redeeming qualities evolving.
“Each year is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” – Hals Borland
*VIGOR ON
VIGOR ❁ 