“Your excuses- you really don’t need to outsource an expert in them your that expert – harsh but true”.
It’s the first day of January, your probably tired of the confusion of Christmas, the guilt that comes from doing nothing and eating everything. You are ready for normality to return and with it comes the expectations you place on yourself for the year- the things we call new years resolutions.
Every nook and cranny have started advertising, for the next few weeks you will be bombarded with the “diet plan you need”, the “gym membership that will change your life”, “the skiing jacket that’s 70% off”- you have no intention of ever going skiing.
You can’t blame people for advertising, I will do it, folk must earn a living. Yes, you might have an extrinsic goal for the new year that does require you to outsource support, and that is absolutely fine but there’s another source we should all be listening to a little more- our intuition.
There is no explanation for it, if you start to think about it, it blows your mind. We did it ourselves, intuitively, every cell in your body was formed, turned you into a human, knew when you were ready to be born, ready to start talking, walking, still doing it, cells constantly renewing themselves, bone growing, fusing, neurons firing wiring, choosing paths, choosing and we do not think how this is all being dictated.
At some stage the noises on the outside, the experts the people we see as successful take over and drown out that little niggling feeling on the inside- intuition.
It is time to start trusting it again, listening to it – going inwards for the information. Trust your intuition, realise that you have this inner intelligence, this knowing, this knowing will lead you to become what you are.
Take the conundrum of fat loss for instance – search inwards and you know the answer. For me right now I know that if I want to lose fat I need to stop drinking alcohol as it causes me to eat high processed, high fats, high calorie foods which lack nutrients. I already know, I don’t need to google it.
If the goal is to run 5km, search inward- our ancestors did so no problem before us, they didn’t follow any couch to 5km program, they just listened to their bodies- their intuition.
If the goal is to have more energy- you know where to look, your sleep routine, your diet and hydration, your exercise regime, your stress levels – no one else can analyse them for you, you’re the person who experiences them.
Your finances, your relationships, you’re your career, you get the drift – trust the inner knowledge in all areas of life. Don’t surrender your own inner knowledge, always give it its place it deserves, no one knows you better than you.
Formulating Fitness 