PRIORITIES
It’s so important that you know your priorities and what is most important to you. In a perfect world we would want to do everything and give our full attention to everything — but it’s impossible. I’m constantly reminding my kids when life gets overwhelming list your priorities and follow through with them. Not every task is equally important. The most important tasks move closer to the top of the list. Prioritizing allows you to identify the most important tasks at any moment and give those tasks more of your attention, energy, and time. It allows you to spend more time on the right things.
We face multiple demands on our time every day. Often it is demands that we didn’t schedule that overrides the original schedule, resulting in the feeling of losing control. In these situations, how should you priorities be determined? Always remember and think through what is going to help you with all of your priorities. Which priority is going to keep you at your best to get you through everything else you have to do and get you through the unforeseen demands. The answer is always going to be EATING CLEAN AND STAYING ON PROGRAM and this is why……
THE KEY IS TO FOCUS ON WHAT’S IMPORTANT — NOT JUST WHAT IS URGENT
Eating clean and staying on program goes hand in hand with all your top priorities. While family, work, school, exercise, friends, parties, celebrations are right at the top of the list — Eating clean and staying on program is what helps you be 100% with all of your top priorities. Why? Because when you are on program you feel great and when you feel great you are a better mom, dad, wife, husband, son, daughter, worker, and friend. When you are eating clean and feel healthy, fit and strong you can think better, react calmer, and give better advice. You enjoy everything in life so much more when you feel good. When your jeans are loose – your whole world could be falling apart and you are like “its all good I got this”. When your jeans are tight and your world is falling apart you are falling apart right with it. And of course the jeans are just an example. But regardless they still make us happy when they are loose:). — If you want to really be there and be strong and take care of everything in your life 100% then you have to take care of yourself first and make sure you are in a good place because only then will you be able to take care of everything else. When you are on program and feeling amazing you are the best you can be for yourself, your family, friends, and your job. You will even exercise better and more often when you are eating clean on program. So at the end of the day eating clean helps you stay focused so you can perfect all the other priorities in your life.
PUT YOURSELF IN THE DRIVERS SEAT WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR TIME: If you don’t plan out how you want your day to go, it’s very easy to end up in reactive mode. This is why I’m always talking to you all about the importance of planning and preparing. If you don’t plan and prepare – when you get hungry you will react with grabbing anything in sight. — When you know what you are doing you don’t have to think about it. When you have your food set and you know were you are going and what you are eating then you will stay on your game and you will be able to put 100% into all of your other priorities and feel amazing at the same time.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU: Remind yourself frequently that ultimately you are the one responsible for how your time and efforts are spent. Like many others, you will still get off track at times and have to deal with surprises that pop up. But if you are on your program and feeling good— regardless of what pops up in your life you will be able to handle it. Harsh times will occur throughout our lives, but it is up to us how we react to them. It’s now what happens in life that is as important as how we react to them, and if you are on program, feeling healthy, thin, fit and strong you will truly be able to handle things so much better than if something harsh comes up and you are already in a negative place mentally and physically.
For those of you who have been on program and are currently on program you know exactly what I am talking about. We have had hundred of clients return this past month. Some fell off, others just need a little check in after the holidays, and others were reminded how much better they felt on program. For me I’m truly grateful when clients return because it makes me happy they know that I fully understand how life can get in the way and it doesn’t take much to fall off the path. I never judge — to me it’s all about moving forward. Don’t dwell on the negative move forward positive. Because moving forward positive is the only thing that is going to get you to where you want to be. There is nothing I want more then for every client to be the best they can be and feel the best they can feel. I know how feeling good can literally affect everything else in your life. I love when I get the messages that they are so happy to be back on program— and how when they are on program they just feel so much better, happier, and they love when everything starts fitting again. — The scale is important and I know getting to that lowest number at that moment feels like everything but the truth is when you are on program and eating clean and in control of your day — that is what makes you feel amazing whether you are at the lowest number or not. Because when you are in control and eating clean on program you are in a great place mentally and physically and that is what is truly life changing.
We are not given a good life or a bad life
we are given a life
It’s up to us to make it good or bad
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
