Making Time to Work Out

Not having enough time to work out is often a reason why many people can't/don't/won't workout. However, there are some relatively simple things you can do immediately to create pockets of time to squeeze a workout routine into, especially in the morning. The tips listed below are assuming you're going to work out in the morning.

Some things you can do to save to or create time to work out in the morning are:

• Write your daily goals for the day the night before (you do create a prioritized list of daily goals...don't you?). This will save you the time about having to try to organize your day in the morning and I guarantee you sleep better.
• Make a morning "to do" list for your children. Help them help themselves. You will be surprised how much they can accomplish on their own if they know exactly what is expected of them and how to do it.
• Stop hitting snooze. Who are you kidding? You're not really getting a few extra winks... you're just lying there wasting time when you could be working out.
• Use your coffee timer to automatically brew your morning coffee.
• Have your breakfast ready to go the night before (consider making a Shakeology drink the night before for breakfast).
• Prepare your lunch and your children's the night before. For yourself, you may consider having something like Shakeology or P90X protein bars for lunch.
• Lay out your work clothes and your children's the night before.
• Lay out your workout clothes the night before.
• Have your workout DVD, workout log, etc ready the night before.
• Lay out your weights or resistance bands the night before in the order that you will use them. This will reduce the time you spend looking for weights between routines. You may even consider buying a set of Bowflex Select dumbbells. Changing the weight of the dumbbells is easy and fast.
• Choose a spot to put your car keys or cell phone each night after work. This will save you the time of scrambling around looking for stuff. Choose a spot and make it a habit.
• Reduce TV Time and use that time to organize for the next day. Only watch the stuff you love. And never, ever turn the TV on in the morning. It will only distract you.

Individually, these tips may not appear to save you significant amounts of time. However, cumulatively they will save you at least 15 minutes and that's plenty of time to get a small workout completed and that's better than nothing.

Six Sigma will fade as a brand

Interesting snippet from John Sall on Six Sigma.
http://tinyurl.com/SixSigmaWillFadeAsABrand

Are you too busy drowning to save yourself?

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the "saddest" predicament which anyone can get into.

J. Ogden Armou

Life is self-service

"Life is like a self-service gas station. You can sit in your car and honk, or you can fill your tank yourself. No one honks longer, louder, or with less effect than a victim. "
Keith Ellis

Are you in Hell?

“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."

Gian Carlo Menotti

Movers & Shakers

Any idiot can tell you what's wrong with the world. The movers and shakers do something about it.

Keith Ellis "The Magic Lamp"

Danz Law of Human Inertia

Each time a body in motion stops, that body requires exponentially more force to set it back in motion.

Human Entropy

Entropy means that we can putter away our days, which turn into months, which turn into years, and before we know it we find ourselves at the end of our lives without having accomplished anything more important than our own survival. -Keith Ellis "The Magic Lamp"

XM SIRIUS Lousy Service Costs them a customer

I recently experienced such poor service from XM SIRIUS, I had no option but to cancel my service. Sadly, no one there gave a crap. A manager was supposedly was calling me back within 48 hours and that hasn't happened in 14 days.
The worst thing about this, for the cash strapped and customer losing XM, is that they owe me a refund, money they already had in the bank.

Why would a company not listen to a customer who has already paid for the company's services.


Go figure