What is stopping you? No, the real reason.

What’s stopping you? No, not the thing you tell yourself is stopping you, what’s really stopping you?

Years ago, I remember driving during work hours and seeing people out jogging. I vividly remember thinking how great that look and if only I had more time, and wasn’t working all the time, that I would do that too. By 2001 I was working from home a lot of the time and, guess what, still never found time for jogging.

In fact, in 2020, over twenty years since I first had that thought, lockdown happened, I literally couldn’t go anywhere in the car and had loads of time, and I managed to put on weight and get even less fit than I was!

It wasn’t until I actually got covid, and decided that I never ever want to feel that ill again, that I started the process of losing weight and getting fit. I now find time to go to the gym every day.

The thing is, it was never really my lack of time was it? I could have found the time, just didn’t. And even when time wasn’t a problem at all anymore, I still wasn’t actually doing it.

When I was asked to write Business Networking for Dummies, I made the time, it was that important. Now it has become important to me to lose weight and get fit, I’ve made the time.