Health & Fitness - Everyday Challenges

So today is a challenging day being away from home for the majority of the day. I awoke at 4:30 am to catch a 6:25 am flight to Oahu. We are not scheduled to return home until 5:00 pm. Not good! By the time I actually get home, it will probably be 7 pm. Time to work out? Hmmmm, not really. But I'm going to make sure that I find the time when I return home. It can be so challenging with many different appointments and commitments. I don't plan on using this as an excuse to take a day off though. I know how challenging this can be, but I believe that no matter how hard we work, we deserve to take some time to ourselves to care and value ourselves.

I'm giggling here as I type this because it may be a different story when I actually return home exhausted from a day of traveling and waiting and traveling and waiting. I may have to update this blog post with a statement that totally contridicts my above statement. We can have the perfect mindset, but mindset needs action. We can all be genius' with amazing ideas, but they do not amount to anything unless you place action into your ideas.

Until the end of the day...I'm signing off for now!

Update! So I tried to take an earlier flight home today so I could make some time to exercise, but the airlines could not make any changes to our flight. We opted to go to the mall and watch a movie. Movie theaters are such a difficult place for me. The temptations are so overwhelming. The smell of buttered popcorn in the air. The noisy crackling and crunching that people make as they eat their candy and popcorn. I think I was lucky though. I was so tired that all of those distractions did not mean a thing to me.

We go home at about 5 pm and I needed to go to the grocery store to pick up some vegtables and food for the week. By the time we got home, it was nearing 7 pm. I got myself sorted and pressed play. Little did I realize, today was week 7 the start of the second half of Power 90. I bid adew to Power 90 1-2 and began Scuplt 3-4. All I can say is, "wow." That was pretty awesome. There are some minor changes in 3-4, decline push-ups, pushups till faliure, and the lovely 4th round of sculpt (where everything is pretty much till failure). I enjoyed it though. I felt great and was amazed as I looked at myself in the mirror. I have developed what seems to be the start of abs. Haa-lay-lu-yer! Now that is motivation in itself.