New Year’s resolutions: health & fitness.
It’s December; days are getting shorter, temperatures are dropping, and before you know it, we will add another year to the calendar. Many people use this time of year to reflect on what has happened and organize their thoughts on what they would like to keep (doing) or change. Health and fitness make that list of reflections for a lot of people.
If you are one of the people who decides it’s time to make a change to your health and fitness, I’d like to challenge you to consider the following:
What is the business model of whoever is going to help you?
If you already know what to do, go and do it! Or pay somebody to keep you accountable and make sure you do it.
Will you pay somebody a fixed amount to get a pre-determined result on a set timeline? These results are usually a very simplified metric of the complex health and fitness matter. What is that number on the scale, completing a 10K run or lower blood pressure worth? And will that metric be a marker for addressing the complete issue? Will you make it in time? What happens if you don’t?
Will you pay for a membership? As long as you need to attain your desired result, or maybe for life?
Or will you pay to be educated?
To learn something you did not know before. To be taken through the motions. To build or refine habits. To have support when things are easy and when things are hard? Will you know at the start that once you can do this thing or adjust to new circumstances, you have gained the knowledge and skills to handle this by yourself? In the following year, or any year that will be on the calendar.
