Start TODAY

You are the only sure-fire positive catalyst for change in your world. Lets be honest - the difficulties of modern life, whether self imposed or external, have a way of making circumstances difficult to achieve progress on any fitness plan. It's pretty common to be overwhelmed by the pace of life; with longer work hours and a hectic activity schedule becoming increasingly more common and demanding, many people seem to want to "wait until things get easier" to push for changes in their health and physique. If I had a dollar for every time I'd had a conversation with a client about how when so-and-so changes, then i'll "get back into it," I'd be writing this from my yacht. 

But will circumstances change on their own? Will work ACTUALLY calm down? Will the end of soccer season REALLY be the extra time you need to "get back in shape," or will life give you another obligation to fill that time slot with? I think you know those answers.

My answer is to be your own advocate. If life is making it hard to get things done like working out or prepping meals that fit your macros, you aren't going to get very far by hoping that it'll get easier three weeks from the fifth Tuesday in February. You need to force a change by imposing it on life, not the other way around. I'm not saying to quit your job and make your kids walk to their swim meet in Springville, but setting some time and energy aside to keep your health and (relative) sanity on point is necessary. Small things can add up to big progress. 

For example:

-pick a day or two each week to get up early and do even 20 minutes of calisthenics or cardio. It might not seem like a lot, but 40 minutes more of activity in a week is better than staring at your phone screen.

-dedicate a portion of Sunday to prep your meals for the week. You're going to eat food Sunday, right? Cook more of it, then portion it out before you stick the leftovers in the fridge. It'll take maybe 5 extra minutes. You've got 5 minutes if you're reading this...

See my point?

The thing is that TODAY is your best bet to buckle down. Frankly, talk is cheap - it's pretty easy to make grandiose plans and hypothesize about how much better you could do if XYZ all fell into place, but nothing ever falls in the right place on its own. Ask a lumberjack...it takes planning to drop something right where it needs to go. So stop waiting for the perfect time because it doesn't exist. Make changes TODAY and reap the benefits down the line. And if the easy phase does show up, you'll have all that extra time to hang out by the pool and show off the body you didn't wait around to get!!

Steve