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Welcome to the CardioFlex Fitness Solutions “Fitness Success” Newsletter.
This week's issue contains:
A. The "Beach Body Boot Camp" kicks off the New Year!
B. Featured Article: "3 Ways To Overcome Procrastination!"
C. "Unbelievable Body Facts! "
D. "Amazing Picture Of The Week"
As always, I hope you enjoy this issue!
To Your Fitness Success,
Peter Vasilis
www.CardioFlexFitnessSolutions.com
The "Beach Body Boot Camp" kicks off the New Year!
Who Else Wants To Shed Up To 8 lbs of Body Fat Every 30 Days ... While Having A Blast At The Beach?
Last week Anguilla's only fat-blasting, body-sculpting, waist-slimming beach body fitness camp kicked off the first sessions for the new year, with a number of exercise enthusiasts joining the fitness camp.
As this is an ongoing monthly fitness camp, registration is now open for the February edition of the "Boot Camp."
Join your friends and make exercising fun this year. This year make your weight loss resolutions come true and join today!
I have two different session times to choose from in order to ensure you have no excuses not to fulfill your fitness resolutions.
You can get all the details here: www.BeachBodyFitnessCamp.com
I hope to see you there and together we can make 2007 you're best year ever!
To Your Fitness Success,
Peter Vasilis
www.CardioFlexFitnessSolutions.com
P.S. Just a reminder if you haven't yet signed up for the “Beach Body Boot Camp” you can get all the details here: www.BeachBodyFitnessCamp.com
"3 Ways To Overcome Procrastination!"
Procrastination, the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute, can be a major problem in both your career and your personal life. Missed opportunities, frenzied work hours, stress, overwhelm, resentment, and guilt are just some of the symptoms.
This is definately a topic that is near and dear to me as well, I'm certainly not immune!
Here are 3 practical tools to overcome it.
1. Replace "Have To" With "Want To"
First, thinking that you absolutely have to do something is a major reason for procrastination. When you tell yourself that you have to do something, you're implying that you're being forced to do it, so you'll automatically feel a sense of resentment and rebellion. Procrastination kicks in as a defense mechanism to keep you away from this pain. If the task you are putting off has a real deadline, then when the deadline gets very close, the sense of pain associated with the task becomes overridden by the much greater sense of pain if you don't get started immediately.
The solution to this first mental block is to realize and accept that you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. Even though there may be serious consequences, you are always free to choose. No one is forcing you to run your business the way you do. All the decisions you've made along the way have brought you to where you are today. If you don't like where you've ended up, you're free to start making different decisions, and new results will follow.
Also be aware that you don't procrastinate in every area of your life. Even the worst procrastinators have areas where they never procrastinate. Perhaps you never miss your favorite TV show, or you always manage to check your favorite online forums each day.
In each situation the freedom of choice is yours. So if you're putting off starting that new project you feel you "have to" do this year, realize that you're choosing to do it of your own free will. Procrastination becomes less likely on tasks that you openly and freely choose to undertake.
2. Replace "Finish It" With "Begin It"
Secondly, thinking of a task as one big whole that you have to complete will virtually ensure that you put it off. When you focus on the idea of finishing a task where you can't even clearly envision all the steps that will lead to completion, you create a feeling of overwhelm. You then associate this painful feeling to the task and delay as long as possible. If you say to yourself, "I've got to do my finances today," or "I must complete this report," you're very likely to feel overwhelmed and put the task off.
The solution is to think of starting one small piece of the task instead of mentally feeling that you must finish the whole thing. Replace, "How am I going to finish this?" with "What small step can I start on right now?" If you simply start a task enough times, you will eventually finish it.
Just focus on what you can do right now. If you do this enough times, you'll eventually be starting on the final piece of the task, and that will lead to finishing.
3. Replace Perfectionism With Permission To Be Human
A third type of erroneous thinking that leads to procrastination is perfectionism. Thinking that you must do the job perfectly the first try will likely prevent you from ever getting started. Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it.
You then end up putting the task off to the last possible minute, so that you finally have a way out of this trap. Now there isn't enough time to do the job perfectly, so you're off the hook because you can tell yourself that you could have been perfect if you only had more time.
But if you have no specific deadline for a task, perfectionism can cause you to delay indefinitely. If you've never even started that project you always
wanted to do really well, could perfectionism be holding you back? Give yourself permission to be human!
"Unbelievable Body Facts!"
-You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily!
-Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
-You can't kill yourself by holding your breath even if you tried with all your might!
-Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day!
-We lose half a liter of water a day through breathing!
-On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day. You take about 600 million breaths during your lifetime!
-The human body makes about two million red blood cells every second!
"Amazing Picture of The Week"
Ana Julia Torres kisses Jupiter, an African lion she rescued malnourished from a circus six years ago, at her Villa Lorena animal shelter, in Cali, Colombia, Friday, Jan. 5, 2007. Ana Julia Torres is the owner of the 12-year-old shelter that rescues sick and mistreated animals from all over Colombia.(AP Photo/Inaldo Perez)
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Peter Vasilis
CardioFlex Fitness Solutions
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Fitness Success Stories
Thanks Peter for all the great classes and PT sessions. You are to be commended for your all around fitness knowledge & expertise, very professional. I will go home with not only a great new program but also a fitness education! J. Waterman New York
Peter is a great trainer, very inspirational. Everyone can see my results and I can definately feel the changes in my body. I found my triceps and abs again! Thanks Peter, I will highly recommend your great programs! Jennifer Phillips Anguilla
Hi Peter, I used Your suggestion concerning procrastination last month and really got a lot of organization done here in my office and "life". Thanks for the inspiration. (I even went back and re-read it to keep me on track!) I have taken off 4 pounds! Glad I got to know you a bit in Anguilla!! Mary Lu Orr Indiana
Who Else Wants To Lose Up To 8 Pounds In 30 Days... While Having A Blast At The Beach!
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