My Exercise Plan: My Motivation

Question 4

What is your motivation? What motivates you? 

Why are you doing this? List some reasons or benefits.

This is the part where you get to create a little mission statement of sorts.  Or what I like to call "my battlecry"!  Why?  Because we all need a battlecry!  It's something to hold onto in those moments when you really would just rather give up!  When you don't want to workout.  When you just don't think you can make it through those last few reps.  That's when you use your battlecry!  In the past I have used:

For the baby! 

{when we were trying to get pregnant and 

I wanted to be in top physical shape for it!}

For Hawaii!

Hey, no one said you can't use vanity reasons!  :D

Your battlecry is your short and sweet statement that wraps it all up!  But I also have a list where I wrote down every little reason why I exercise.  Some of them are vanity reasons . . .

Reason No. 7 ~ So I can wear cute clothes
Reason No. 9 ~ So I can feel and look good in my swimming suit
Reason No. 12 ~ Because it makes me feel sexy

And some of them health reasons . . .

Reason No. 1 ~ So I can be healthy
Reason No. 5 ~ To keep my blood pressure under control
Reason No. 6 ~ To help prevent strokes and heart attacks

I even have a few silly ones like . . .

 Reason No. 21 ~ So I can be all ninja if I have to
Reason No. 24 ~ So I can fit myself into super tiny spaces!

 Your longer list of reasons is also a helpful little tool you can use to remind yourself why you're doing this on those days that you really just don't want to exercise at all!  Make it specific.  Make it personal to you.  Really think about the reasons that you want to be healthy and then draw on those during the times you'd rather quit.  I've posted mine in my Menu of Services so I can go over it easily at any time.

So what do you think?  Would this be a valuable tool for you to use?  Have you ever made a list like this? And if you've come up with a battlecry I would LOVE to hear what it is!