{"id":98,"date":"2008-03-11T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/changeyourbody.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/11\/choosing-to-change\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:58:45","slug":"choosing-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobefit.com\/coach-blog\/2008\/03\/11\/choosing-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing To Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My primary reason for my presence on the Internet has always been to provide  information on fitness, health and nutrition and to provide access to the means  to optimize your wellbeing. Over, time, my sites have grown faster than my  ability to properly maintain them and now that I have a low stress occupation, I  have more time to provide information to you in the organized format that you  deserve. In the process of going through each of the 1,007 articles on my site  to make sure that they are indexed for you to find, I began to come across  articles about choosing and changing (okay, so I am going through the articles  alphabetically and I have only gotten to the &#8220;C&#8217;s&#8221;) and that is really a big  part of the essence of making your life what you want it to be.<\/p>\n<p>You can  talk to someone until you are blue in the face, but if they aren&#8217;t ready to  listen or aren&#8217;t ready to change, your words and energy are being wasted.  Everyone has their own timetable for change and their own reasons to make  choices. For instance, you can tell someone that they won&#8217;t get the results that  they want as quickly and as effectively by just dieting as they would with diet  and exercise, but until <u>they<\/u> are ready to get off of the couch and start  moving, you are wasting your time saying anything.<\/p>\n<p>There is a story on  AOL, from USA Today about Scott Spiezio. Just 17 months ago, Spiezio was on top  of the baseball world as the Cardinals won the World Series. Now, he faces jail  time and his friends fear for his safety. Spiezio was released from the  Cardinals on Feb. 26, the same day a warrant was issued for his arrest, stemming  from a DUI incident in Irvine, Calif. in which he is accused of attacking a  friend.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Troy Percival, who played with Spiezio  with the Angels from 2000 to 2003 and with the Cardinals last season, says he  strongly believes his former teammate needs help. He says he tried to help  Spiezio, sitting up night after night in Spiezio&#8217;s hotel room last year, trying  to persuade him to seek treatment. It went nowhere, with Spiezio even  threatening to hit Percival if he didn&#8217;t leave, Percival says.<\/p>\n<p>Change is  apparently not something that Scott Spiezio is ready for, even though he  desperately needs to change. Whether you need to make little changes or big  changes, those changes ultimately have to be your choice. 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