What is Your “Why”

This is one of the main questions I ask my clients. I always tell them to find a deeper purpose for “why” you want to begin a health journey. What is the end goal, not just to see a certain number on the scale? Go deeper.

If you really thought about it and looked into what you want your future to look like for your health, what would be your why? This is what I use to remind people when you need to find motivation. This is what you look back on. It’s what drives you forward!

Some people want to be able to actually play with their kids or grand kids. Some people don’t want to die a slow unhealthy death. They don’t want to take medicine anymore. They don’t want to end up in a nursing home or 24hr care, long before they have to. They don’t want to go down the same path they watched a parent or loved one go down. Or would you just like to really get your confidence back to feel great no matter what you’re wearing and what you’re doing? Because confidence is everything! It shines through in everything you do.

You don’t have to be severely overweight or obese for these to be an issue for you. Sometimes your health can take a wrong turn long before you even consider yourself overweight. But if you treat your body well and take care of your body and live a healthy lifestyle nourishing it the way it needs nourished; your body will reflect that on the outside. Your body only reflects what you do to it.

So, I also get asked the question of what my “why” is. “Why do you eat so healthy all the time?” “You should live a little.” “Why are you training like that?” I always say LIFE. I am training for life and whatever life may hand me good or bad, big or small. I want to go above and beyond doing things with my children. I want to educate them and help them live a truly healthy life. I just want to feel GOOD for as long as possible! And I will “Live” plenty because I feel so good.

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My first inspiration for all this, for me to be healthy and helping others to be healthy, was from my Dad. He was a highly decorated combat medic and literally fought through gun fire, war, to help other people survive. He came home and carried a lot of guilt the rest of his life that he survived, and they didn’t make it back. He continued helping people from his career and to help develop my brothers and sister, and I into great human beings. He taught us so many values. Take pride in everything you do. Your name is on it. Whether a job be big or small, you do it right or not at all. Have integrity. Pride. Believe in yourself. Treat others the way you want to be treated. You do anything for anyone because you care. And you do it with your whole heart and all of your being. Be competitive. Be the one.

He carried those values on the battlefield saving people’s lives as he’s getting shot at and almost shot his arm off once… and he kept going… We couldn’t even begin to imagine what that would be like. Like a real-life video game. He never told us those stories until he was on his death bed. He now lies peacefully with his brothers he couldn’t save, in Arlington National Cemetery. I feel like if he can push through something like that, then I can do anything! Mental toughness for normal life problems couldn’t even compare!

He fought every day to help people. He fought every day to help us kids. His health was so bad because that was the main thing he let go and so many problems from the effects of Agent Orange. I fought every day of my whole life to try and help him. I watched him suffer with health problems my whole life. I wished so bad he could do things with us, but he just couldn’t sometimes. I wanted so bad to help fix him… clear until the end when I held onto him as he died.