Good Intentions vs Commitment

There are a lot of well intentioned people out there; people who set goals for self-improvement, who ‘say’ they want to achieve something, whether that be fat loss, some type of physique improvement, lifestyle change, etc. (this of course is also applicable to all sorts of things in life, but we’ll keep it within the fitness context).

However, many of these people don’t have any real tenacity or persistence. For example, the ‘serial dieter’; most of us know one.

They start well (again), but they don’t finish well, or finish at all. And thus, no reward. Really, who gets rewarded for how they start? No one.

The rewards come from finishing well. There are countless excuses for not following through on a commitment to yourself, but rarely is there a really good “reason”.

Many people mistakenly think commitment is the same as good intentions; they aren’t.

All is well that begins well and all is well that ends well, but it isn’t well if you don’t begin well and it’s not going to be well if you don’t end well.

Tenacity, commitment, the willingness to finish what you started – THAT is the key. Persistence is “intestinal fortitude”, mental toughness and the steady resolve to endure when the odds are against you.

The difference between a winner and a quitter is that one has a strong WILL and the other has a strong WON’T.

The great thing is that EVERYONE has the potential to ditch the WON’T for the WILL.