Your project or goal for the year can include anything from finishing the family room to increasing your income. That doesn’t mean you can’t add one more. Getting fitter should be a top priority. Whether you need to improve your endurance, build strength, or improve your balance or flexibility, accomplishing your goal should be a top priority. It affects all other areas of your life. You won’t achieve your fitness life goals if you don’t have the energy or strength.

Start by identifying your goal.

Identifying your goal is vital to achieving it. If you want to remodel a room, you need a vision of the outcome. It’s important to have a specific goal to create the direction of your efforts. If your goal is to lose weight, it should be a precise amount of weight. Once you determine that, you can start breaking your big goal into smaller ones that are easier to achieve. If the goal is to lose 20 pounds, a realistic goal is to lose one to two pounds weekly.

Now determine how you’ll achieve PROJECT YOU.

Continuing to use weight loss as an example, a program of exercise and a healthy diet are two ways of achieving it. Putting exercise on your schedule and consistently doing it is a start. Eating healthier, not necessarily dieting, should be a top priority for a weight loss goal. A healthy body starts in the kitchen. Eating healthy isn’t dieting. It’s making smart choices when you eat. It’s choosing whole food and limiting highly processed food or food with added sugar.

You need to be consistent and track your results.

Consistency is the key to success. Methods to help you become more consistent include scheduling workouts, meal planning, and tracking your workout. Using a personal trainer can help you stay on track. The trainer will hold you accountable for exercising and meet with you regularly. The trainer also tracks your workout. If you don’t have a trainer, you should track your progress. It turns it into a game. It can be as simple as using notes on your phone to track the number of repetitions or as elaborate as following a meal planning program.

• Each week is a new start when you have a goal. If you missed your goal one week, don’t quit. It may be a setback, but it’s not a failure unless you quit. Each week is a new start for Project You.
• You can choose any fitness program you desire, but it should be balanced and contain endurance, strength, balance, and flexibility workouts. You need all types of fitness.
• If you want to look younger, improve your complexion, or lift your mood, diet and regular exercise should be part of your program of development.
• If you don’t care enough about yourself to be your project, who will? Your health and fitness should be your top priority if you care for others. If you’re sick, nobody will be there to care for them.

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