YOU

I've found that the most helpful and useful things in life are often the most cliche and slap to the face obvious. For example, if you workout and eat right, 99% of the time you will not get fat, look gross and become sick - something over 35% of our population does not understand.

Today, what I'm really talking about now is owning your time. Last weekend, Holly Rigsby, owner of www.fityummymummy.com, dedicated a good portion of her speech about to this. Her point, was that we as Americans, we often spend too much time doing the things we think we need to do as opposed to spending time doing the things we want to do.

This really hit home for me because as an entrepreneur and teacher, I started to find my own workouts suffering. I'm on the road from early am to just getting home anywhere from 8 -10 pm - without any large chunk of time in the middle to spend on myself. I'd get in maybe 25 minute workouts but mostly 10 minute, high intensity circuits. These types of workouts do have a great effect on burning fat and maintenance but sometimes the meat head in me just wants to lift weights and not rush.

Therefore, for now on I decided to give myself one full hr to workout, three days a week. Sorry clients. Further, I started blocking out an additional hour for business development (stuff I need to do but have no energy to do at 10 pm after 13 hrs). Selfish? Maybe but its better long term for not only my personal growth but for those around me.

What are you not making time for?
Workouts? Family? Significant others? Reading? Baywatch re-runs?

Map out an hour each day to focus on whatever it is you love to do or be around. Literally mark it off in your calender or phone and start owning your time.

The more you skip out on what you love, the more you will resent yourself. Take care of the things you need to (your job, health etc..) and live a life that serves your purpose.