New Year, New You...What does it mean?

Four years ago if I saw a post inviting me to join a New Year New You challenge group I would have rolled my eyes and made some stupid comment about how it's all bull shit. I would have talked about how every year I make resolutions and set out to be a new me and it never happens. That was me before I decided to take ownership of my life. I was sitting there wishing for things to happen but not taking any action. I would rather complain than do something about it because I was scared of what it took to change. It wasn't that it wasn't possible, I just didn't believe that I was capable of it...until I joined my first challenge group that is.

I was 28 years old, single, living in an amazing city full of friends and family. This should of been the best time of my life, but instead I felt like it was the worst. I felt unhealthy, unfit, and a lack of things to be proud of in my life. Year after year there were things I had set out to do, and year after year I never did them. It went beyond my health and fitness, it was my entire life that I was unhappy with. Although I wanted to, I knew I couldn't change everything all at once so I started with my own health and fitness. I was asked to join a New Year challenge group called New Year New You where I could work out from home following along with a video and drinking a health shake. I had seen infomercials in the past showing before and after photos of people who have completed this programs, and although skeptical I wanted one of those people to be me. 

I was one of those people that would spend $200 on a night of drinking, spending money on improving myself was out of the question. After a lot of back and forth about the cost, I bit the bullet and purchased a program. What did I have to lose? 

Welp, I apparently had a lot to lose! I lost about 30 pounds, I lost my negative attitude, I lost my low self confidence, I lost my limiting belief that I couldn't do it, and I gained a life that I was proud of. 

When I joined that New Year New You challenge I went in with good intentions, but never expected to look back a year later and really see a new me...but I did. 

That first challenge group taught me a lot more than how to get in shape. Since joining every year I have made new goals beyond fitness that I have blown through. It started with getting myself physically healthy, but led to me loving and living my life to the fullest in all areas. 

Every year to remember how I got started down a new path I host my own New Year New You challenge. To others it may sound cliche and cheesy, but I know better. I was unhappy with myself and my life. I didn't know how to take action to change it. Had I never found a challenge group I'm not sure that I ever would have changed it. I may still be the unhappy, unhealthy person I was four years ago...just older. That thought right there makes me sad because I know there are many people out there who go through their entire lives that way. 

Join me on Jan. 4th for a 60 day New Year New You challenge! Here is how I see it...shit in one hand, wish in the other...which hand fills up faster? You have to stop wishing and start taking action. Take action with me! 

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