6d • Mindset & Discipline
Your Daily Choices Decide the Man in the Mirror
I was reading the book Atomic Habits this morning and there was a quote that hit me hard: "Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become."
That is powerful and it applies to everything in life - especially when it comes to your physical fitness.
I'll put it this way... seemingly small, seemingly inconsequential actions you take with your diet can add up in a big way.
Let's say you decide to have a very small (one of the mini) bags of chips and a soda from the vending machine when the mid day hunger hits. I mean, that's next to nothing in the great scheme of things, right? 390 calories won't make you fat.
But if you do that even just twice a week, you're looking at around 3,500 extra calories in a month. There is 3,500 calories in a pound of fat - so just doing that a couple times a week can add 1 pound of fat per month. Barely noticeable. But over a year, that's 12 pounds of fat you can add!
Look at the flip side... If you decide to jump on a treadmill twice a week and burn an extra 400-500 calories, that's not a huge deal - but it will burn about a pound of fat per month, so you could lose 12 pounds a year from that.
Combine those two things - eliminate the occasional junk food fix and hit the cardio a couple times a week, and just those small changes can help you lose over 20 lbs in the course of a year. That's huge!
It's a microwave society we live in a people want huge results NOW! But we're playing the long game, and every action you take - or don't take - is moving you toward the man you will become. You get to decide, with tiny little daily actions, what that man in the mirror looks like in 6 months. Or 12 months. Or 2 years. Or 5 years.
You get the idea. Pay attention to the small things each day, and the big picture will take care of itself.
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Your Daily Choices Decide the Man in the Mirror
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