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Speaker and philosopher Jim Rohn said, “It’s too bad we can’t hire someone else to do our push-ups.”

Exercise has always been a do-ityourself venture. No other person or machine can do it for you. That’s why it’s important to find personal motivating factors to exercise, lose weight, and stay with it.

Though this sounds easy, it’s not so easy to maintain. Here are a few ideas for everyone, especially the 35 percent of morbidly obese Americans, who have a hard time beginning.

Mindset and language must be conquered. If you think and say, “It’s going to be so hard,” guess what? It’s will be. If you think and say, “I have to eat and exercise…aghhh,” you are defeated before you begin. One of my mentors always said, “You only have to until you want to. Then you don’t have to anymore.”

What will it take for you to eat right and exercise? Don’t be swayed by the simplicity of this concept: In one sentence say why you want to be healthy. Move beyond the obvious. Writing “I want to be healthy so I can be healthy” is not inspiring.

Writing one of the following is more apt to get you started and keep you going:

• I am attending my child’s wedding.

• I want to play with and watch my grandchildren grow up.

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