Day 220 – Week 32 – 32 mins

I am very proud of myself for doing my full 32 minutes today. It seems harder and harder to achieve my full quota lately, so I am celebrating whenever I manage it.

They key to success? Letting your mind let go of all the other million and one things you need to do, breathing deeply and giving yourself that time to concentrate on your health and fitness.

Oh – I know it’s hard – as you exercise away in your living room, thinking you should be in the shower already, because you could do with being at work a little earlier today, and then you notice a big smear on a photo frame on your mantlepiece and you think how much you’d like to clean it off, and then that reminds you that you need to buy a new photo frame because you have that photo of your niece and nephew that is still sitting on the shelf frameless, and then you remind yourself you have to take some fish out of the freezer for dinner when you next go into the kitchen, and in fact you really should write a shopping list as there’s a few things you need on the way home, and you musn’t forget that letter you need to post on your way to the train station this morning, and the DVDs that have to be taken to the video shop….

Sound familiar? No wonder you are tempted to cut your exercise short and get on with some of those jobs spinning around in your brain…

But don’t….

Be still….

And give yourself a 32 minute investment in your health. Remember what we said at the beginning of all this? For this year – doing this exercise is the only thing you absolutely MUST do each day….

Breath deeply and cocoon yourself from everything else that is demanding your attention….

Suzi