Action Speaks Louder than Resolutions

Many of us will resolve to exercise more in the new year, the ultimate goal being weight loss, or fitness, or just improved health.  What will make us actually exercise?  Well, making the resolution might be a start but if you want to succeed in doing something you know you want to/need to/should do, you must act.  You must act before you think.  You must overcome the inertia of the couch no matter how hard it is sucking you into its cushions and lace up the shoes and walk out the door.  So be present to the voice in your head that is distracting you and helping you put the fifteenth potato chip in your mouth.  Take a deep breath, clear your mind and get up and lace up the shoes.  Other options:  push "play" on the new yoga DVD, or the P90X you got for Christmas, roll out the exercise mat, lie down and start stretching, get on the treadmill or the bike and just start moving.  All the while, the voice might still be there, coaxing you back to the couch or the computer or the bed, but you can multitask!  You can listen and act anyway, before you are knocked unconscious.  Act first, think later.  Once you are moving, stretching, breathing, that force will take over and the voice can chatter all it wants to while you stick your tongue out at it and say "hah!  I am exercising anyway you fool!"  Nike had it right with "just do it"  but the rest of the sentence should have been, "just do it even though the voice says no because if you don't you will be a crotchety old stiff sore immobile lump that can't keep up with the joys of life because the couch has sucked you in!"  So there............make your resolutions, but after you write them down, reach over for your shoes, put them on and go for the walk, NOW!!