There are 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day. That is a fact. It can’t be changed. It is the same for everyone. A common misconception (or lie) that we tell ourselves is that we don’t have time to start or adhere to healthy behaviors like workouts, or meal prep. We are too busy with work, kids, school, and many other things that take up those precious hours allotted to us. There is no time left to spend on getting or staying healthy. When we see other people who do make it to the gym, go for walks, prep healthy snacks or plan their meals, we tell ourselves that those are great ideas, but we don’t have time for them. Those people can do it because they are retired, don’t have kids, have built in babysitters or have jobs that provide healthy behaviors. We tell ourselves that those people have more time and if we just had different circumstances, we too would have enough time to work on our own health.
It may be hard to hear but those are just excuses. Thinking that we would be more productive with our time if we just had more of it, keeps us from working on habit change. We may not have the luxury of free unscheduled time that some people seem to have but those people who make it look easy are making purposeful decisions with their time. They are choosing to spend the time that they have in healthy behaviors. If you really want to make healthy changes in your life you need to take advantage of the “pockets” of time that are available to you and choose to use them to better your health. Pockets of time are those golden moments that miraculously appear in the day and we can use them to our benefit. Waiting in the car line you can pop in a positive podcast. When the baby is taking a nap, you can grab a workout DVD or a walk on the treadmill. When the rest of the house is still asleep you can throw on your shoes and go for a run.
Pockets pop up all of the time, but we need to be aware of them and choose to use them in a healthy way. If you are stuck in a mentality of “I’ll work on change when my circumstances change”, you will never notice that you do have pockets of time available to you, right now. That perfect moment will never come so we have to choose to make healthy habits happen.
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