True confession time.

I woke up in a funk this morning. My first conscious thoughts were negative ones.

It had gone on for a few minutes before I caught myself. So I grabbed my headphones and listened to a guided meditation.

That worked great until my feet hit the floor.

One of the dogs had thrown up in the night and my husband hadn’t cleaned it up. He had stepped over it in fact as he went to the bathroom. (To be fair he didn’t actually see it.)

Grumble, grumble, grumble.

And all the stuff I’d been stewing over as I woke up came flooding back.

It’s SO easy to get caught up in a negative thought spiral.

And like a stubborn 2 year old, I wanted to stay there. In fact, all I wanted to do was go back to bed and just hide under the covers all day.

The last thing I wanted to do was exercise.

The truth is, I’m not perfect. I’m human. I can have doubts and worries and self-criticism. I am a work in progress.

The good news is these old thoughts patterns pop up less and less frequently. And I do have the desire to shift my energy, as well as the tools to help make it happen.

So instead of going back to bed, I did my workout—anyway.

One of the best ways to shift negative thoughts and feelings is to move your body.

Consistently working out with intensity increases oxygen levels in the body and helps you tap into endorphins that create an amazing feeling of being in love with life that continues way longer than your workout.

Not only does exercise boost energy and positive feeling all day, but study after study shows that it plays and important role in promoting sound physical and mental health, and emotional well-being.

And of course, everyone knows it can help you release the weight.

Many women find it hard to get started, or to stick with exercise for more than a few days or weeks.

Here are some tips for making working out a part of your regular routine so that you can begin reaping the rewards:

• Focus on Why you want optimal wellness. Having a powerful reason Why you want to achieve a goal will make a huge difference in doing the necessary actions—even when you don’t feel like it.
• Schedule it. Many people try to fit exercise into their busy schedules—only to have it be the thing that never gets done. Instead figure out when you are going to work out, and create your schedule around that.
• Do it first. Often my clients generate a lot of negative energy worrying about when they are going to get their workout in later in the day. Doing it first thing in the morning enables you to bask in the positive energy all day long.
• Start small. Committing to 10 minutes a day and then counting everything that gets you there—taking the stairs, parking further away, walking the dog, etc.—helps you build positive momentum that leads to your doing more.
• Don’t call it exercise. Many women have a negative relationship with the words “exercise” or “workout.” Refer to moving your body in a way that doesn’t make you have an automatic negative reaction.
• Make it fun. Pick something you actually enjoy doing. And then focus on how much fun it is.

I can attest to the power of exercise to help shift your mood so that something as minor as dog sick is no big deal. (This is a really good thing because literally as I was typing that sentence my dog threw up again. And this time, I had a totally different response.)

What can you do today that makes moving your body a regular part of your life so you can reap the positive rewards—including having a more positive reaction to the trivial aspects of life?

Together we can do it!

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