Making a decision and pulling together a strategy is one thing. Executing that strategy is a totally different story. It is the execution that will ultimately determine whether your strategy was worth the paper it was written on. Whether it is in your business life or your personal life, it is no different. My “health strategy” is easy, on paper, just about anyone could design it. Eat well, sleep well, drink water, stay away from too many sugars, salts exercise and keep your attitude positive. Simple. I can eat well (sometimes too well), sleep, is no problem – I am the girl who slept through a bomb blast in the 80’s in South Africa – my attitutde, I can whip that around pretty quickly. But exercise. I loathe it.

I find nothing about going to the gym appealing. I get bored. It does not matter if I have an iPod, a book and television to watch, I am “ho-hum” in about 10 minutes. It all seems so pointless. Yesterday was a classic example. I went spinning. The bikes, don’t go anywhere, the music is similar every time and the routine is pretty much the same every session. So within five minutes, I would have been happy to decleat and go and sit happily in the interior of my head and do something else. Unfortunately, thinking does not make you healthy.

So as I was spinning my legs, bored out of my mind. I asked myself why are you doing this? Do you want to look good? The answer was “Meh.” Are you trying to prove a point? “Meh, again” from my bored interior. I thought as my legs continued to pedal but go nowhere. It dawned on me then, that I liked my spirit, I like my soul, and in order to enjoy them both and be the best that I can be. I need a healthy body to house them in. I pedalled like the wind to the beat of “I will do this, to I love my spirit, it needs a healthy home.” It is amazing how when you get the motivation right, even boring things are do-able.

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