{"id":818,"date":"2010-01-11T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2011-03-23T04:21:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T11:21:52","slug":"why-do-people-give-up-so-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2010\/01\/11\/why-do-people-give-up-so-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Give Up So Easily?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>This isn&#8217;t going to be one of those, &#8220;In my day&#8221; rants, but honestly, years ago, people prided themselves in never giving up and never quitting. \u00a0 I don&#8217;t live in some parallel universe and come up with these commentaries. \u00a0 I see people give up, I hear about people giving up and I know that &#8220;I can&#8217;t&#8221; is an all too common refrain today.<\/p>\n<p>In the fitness world, that is bad news because there are things that are a whole lot easier to do. \u00a0 Although the level of enthusiasm is very high now for keeping resolutions and losing weight and getting in shape and giving up bad habits, history tells us that enthusiasm will wane &#8211; another way of saying people will give up and quit. \u00a0 That is so sad.<\/p>\n<p>Because I hear it so often, I will use the Beachbody workout DVD, <a title=\"P90X\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobefit.com\/p90x.htm\">P90X<\/a>, as an example. \u00a0 It was created by <a title=\"Tony Horton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobefit.com\/beachbody-trainers.htm\">Tony Horton<\/a> who started out as a regular guy who didn&#8217;t like to exercise and eat right and went to Hollywood to become an actor. \u00a0 Being a &#8220;98 pound weakling&#8221;, he realized he had to get fit to succeed and joined the World Gym in Venice, CA. \u00a0 His transformation was so awesome that he became a sought after trainer and went on to create a series of workout DVD&#8217;s including <a title=\"Power 90\" href=\"http:\/\/teambeachbody.com\/shop\/-\/shopping\/Power90?referringRepId=1393\">Power 90<\/a> and the legendary <a title=\"P90X Complete Fitness System\" href=\"http:\/\/teambeachbody.com\/shop\/-\/shopping\/P90X?referringRepId=1393\">P90X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Virtually anyone can do P90X, just like anything else that we set our minds to, but we all too often focus on failures instead of successes and don&#8217;t get up, dust ourselves off and try again. \u00a0 Remember, if at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try, try again. \u00a0 Tony himself says, &#8220;Do your best and forget the rest&#8221;. \u00a0 And if you don&#8217;t believe me and think that you can&#8217;t do P90X, then just click on the Ask The Coach logo at right and one or more of the coaches will tell you how.<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t people dream big and hold onto their goals for dear life and not let them go? \u00a0 A simplistic evaluation would be that \u00a0 there are too many safety nets these days and so many other things that you can be doing with your time that are a whole lot easier. \u00a0 You can eat junk food, sit in front of a computer, play video games, watch endless hours of TV and still be taken care of when you get sick. \u00a0 Your health insurance covers all but your co-pay and there is a drug for every obesity and inactivity related affliction there is. \u00a0 In the old days, which I lived in, there were far fewer safety nets and it was more survival of the fittest. \u00a0 We lived by sayings like an apple a day keeps the doctor away and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.<\/p>\n<p>If you fall into the category of gravitating to the easy and avoiding the challenging, can you imagine what you would be doing with your time if there was no TV, no video games, no smartphones, no iPods and no computers? \u00a0 You would get mighty bored just sitting at your desk or sitting on the couch or in an easy chair.<\/p>\n<p>Work hard to be healthy and physically fit and then you can work easy to maintain it because once you have those things, you will cherish and safeguard them and value what you do to keep them.<\/p>\n<p>Have a dream, create a goal, make a plan and commit to succeeding in achieving your goal. \u00a0 It only takes unwavering determination and we all have it if we put our blinders on. \u00a0 Stop thinking about all those distractions that pull us from the path we need to stay on. \u00a0 The path that has the ultimate reward of optimum fitness and health is what we all must stay on. \u00a0 There is nothing \u00a0 more valuable than your health because without it, no other dreams are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t going to be one of those, &#8220;In my day&#8221; rants, but honestly, years ago, people prided themselves in never giving up and never quitting. \u00a0 I don&#8217;t live in some parallel universe and come up with these commentaries. \u00a0 I see people give up, I hear about people giving up and I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[370,367,369,157,162,368],"class_list":{"0":"post-818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized-posts","7":"tag-beachbody-workout-dvd","8":"tag-giving-up","9":"tag-importance-of-health","10":"tag-p90x","11":"tag-power-90","12":"tag-quitting","13":"czr-hentry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Do People Give Up So Easily? 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