I’ve mentioned many times on these blogs that the most common reason people give for not making changes. to their eating an activity levels………….
Is some variation of “I’m too busy”.
And, as I always say, I get that
I get the you’re busy.
The fact that people are busy is a given.
But what we could perhaps ask in that situation is how do we know that we’re “too busy”?
To know if anything is “too” something, then surely we need clear definitions of how much it is and what is the maximum it could be?
To know something is “too long” we would need to know exactly how long it is and how big is the space for it was (or whatever other measurement we’re comparing it to).
So if we’re too busy, maybe we’ll benefit from getting a really precise answer to how much time something would take and how much potentially reassignable time we have.
Three 45 minute Group Personal Training Sessions (plus travel) down at RISE would add up to a little over three hours a week.
We can make different food choices that require zero additional time.
If we accurately measure where we’re currently assigning the 168 hours in the week (maybe by using the resources at www.myrise.co.uk/time)……….
Then I would be genuinely surprised if we found that we didn’t have at least three hours that we were currently spending on non-essential activities.
Now it’s up to us how we choose to assign our time.
Who would I be to tell someone otherwise?
But if we think that we’re too busy to do something………
Then asking, and accurately answering, “how busy too busy?”……..
May help us realise that it’s perhaps not as black and white as we’ve been telling ourselves.
Much love,
Jon ‘too late’ Hall
P.S. My programme is designed to be as time efficient as possible. And, more than anything, everyone who’s ever been concerned about being “too busy” before they started with us, got there not by stopping being busy but by becoming okay with ‘knowingly sub-optimal and done now’ over ‘theoretically better but deferred’. It’s www.myrise.co.uk/apply when you’re ready to accept that!
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
