{"id":128,"date":"2008-04-30T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T15:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/changeyourbody.wordpress.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-04-30T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T15:18:37","slug":"starting-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2008\/04\/30\/starting-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:small;\">Those \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twords might precede words like, &#8220;&#8230;garbage pick up will be __________&#8221; or &#8220;&#8230; \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tall winter coats will be ____% off&#8221;. But sadly, you hear &#8220;starting tomorrow&#8221; \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmore often in terms of lifestyle changes. I am going to quit smoking tomorrow, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tI am going to quit drinking tomorrow, I am going to go on a diet tomorrow or I \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tam going to start working out tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:small;\">For \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmany people that means that they will never change and they are stuck in today \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tall over again every day. Much like Phil Connors (Bill Murray) in the movie \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29\">Ground Hog \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDay<\/a>. The mistakes that we make today, like Phil Connors forecasting a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tblizzard wrong, come back to haunt us. Whereas he was forced to go back to his \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thated weather assignment in Punxsutawney, PA covering the real Ground Hog Day \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcelebration again, you may be faced with a life threatening, life shortening or \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlife limiting lifestyle choice that instead of waiting until tomorrow, you \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcould start changing today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:small;\">Phil Connors \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trealizes his situation and uses it as an opportunity to live life recklessly, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tknowing that he will wake up the next day at 6:00 am to the sound of Sonny and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCher&#8217;s &#8220;I Got You Babe&#8221; on his clock radio. Phil knows what he got away with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand was given a second chance (and third and forth, etc.) but to the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinhabitants of Punxsutawney, it is February 2nd and the meteorologist Phil \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConnors will be covering that day&#8217;s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcelebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:small;\">We don&#8217;t live life like a movie \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand most of us don&#8217;t get second chances (let alone third or forth) and our \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tchoices and failures today will follow us into tomorrow and the next day and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:small;\">Do you need to make a change in your \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlife today that will have life changing benefits? If so, don&#8217;t wait until \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttomorrow, because you may end up trapped in your own Ground Hog Day, living \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlife recklessly and not making the changes that you need to make. Start eating \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thealthy today. Don&#8217;t wait until tomorrow. Start exercising today. Don&#8217;t wait \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tuntil tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica;color:#000000;font-size:small;\">Phil Connors realized his \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tarrogance and began to examine his life and his priorities. You are not trapped \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin time, but rather trapped in your inability to make changes. Examine \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">your<\/span> life and <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">your<\/span> priorities and start making changes \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">today<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those words might precede words like, &#8220;&#8230;garbage pick up will be __________&#8221; or &#8220;&#8230; all winter coats will be ____% off&#8221;. But sadly, you hear &#8220;starting tomorrow&#8221; more often in terms of lifestyle changes. 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