5 successful ways to motivate yourself!

One of the hardest stage to go through when starting a new exercising program is the start. You will get less and less motivated to do your cardiovascular activities even if you try to think positive at all times. It's a normal thing, happens to many of us including me. But I've found a few handy ways to address this problem.

We need to:

1. Be in a more fitness-orientated environment

• We humans tend to do what the majority does, this is known as the 'herd instinct'. If the people we mix with are fitness conscious people, chances are we ourselves will be too. In a way, it's motivating you move forward because you know someone is in the journey with you. The thing is, if you're trying to be active, the non-active friends around you will not understand what you're going through and they're not the ones who will push you forward. Instead, join those fitness junkies.

2. Think of long term health benefits

• Having an active lifestyle will no doubt give you long term health benefits, it also help you reduce the impact from smoking, excessive drinking, and many other unhealthy habits that younger generations have. It's surprising how much more years you get if you start an active lifestyle!

3. Make all your decisions a 'MUST', not 'maybe'

• Procrastination is the thief of time, it always holds us back from what we are supposed to do, but we can't let it affect our health. There is always a delay when we want to do some exercise, especially when we come back from work, or using the computer. Make this your priority, and everything else secondary, like watching TV, on the computer etc.

4. Work towards a goal

• Set a short-term goal, write it down. It could be anything from your brother's wedding, and you want to look fabulous, or even wanting to look at your best with your bathing suit during your vacation. As long as you keep reminding yourself that, you will be sure to exercise in order to achieve it!

5. Just START

• As crazy as it may sound, the hardest part is the start, as mentioned above. What we gotta do is really simple, just start. Because after you overcome this obstacle, you'll get the hang of it, and slowly pick up the momentum, after that is easy to move on. But after you stop, it's going to be hard again to start from sctrach. So if you after you start, it's a MUST to not stop.