Are you "Fit To Play?"

Hello My Friends: Debra Seeck, Lifestyle Fitness and Dance Coach Here!

(Angel is posting for me this time as I can’t seem to get into my log-in screen. We’ll figure that out, but for today she’s agreed to get my post up and out to all of you.)

It’s been a while my friends, but I’m back and ready to share about a great way to begin thinking and taking action around your play/fitness life…

Believe it or not, I like starting my mornings playing a difficult game of Sudoku. I have a Sudoku block set up in my computer on Excel. I fill in the numbers given from a Sudoku book, highlight them in red, hit the save button, and then take off filling in the empty boxes with all the possible variables in black. Once I have all the variables, then I can see the big picture. The picture though is like the phrase, “Can’t see the forest for the trees.” The answers are there but not directly visible.

So I take the next step. Within that big picture, I can see the “sets” that allow me to eliminate numbers in each square. Often the sets are not that obvious and that’s when I need to study the picture again and make amendments, sometimes even guess. There is hard work in dealing with some of the variables. Though they are in the big picture, they just don’t make sense.

However, perseverance always pays off for me. Once several squares have received the right number, the puzzles becomes a game of dominos. Everything just falls into place.
I follow the same regime every time I play Sudoku and I never walk away from the game without winning.

I can imagine many of you get tired of New Year’s resolution ads and the pressure of setting a resolution. I don’t because I don’t bother with them. I realized long ago when a change needed to happen; I needed to set the plan right then and there. What I have learned is, once the plan is in place, it’s like the game of Sudoku. All the variables need to be filled in to get the big picture to appear, and once the variables are tackled, one by one, the plan falls in place like dominos.

It’s the hard work of dealing with variables that can cause one to detour from the plan. Sticking to a weight loss program or a fitness program requires perseverance and the knowledge that once you get passed a certain point… it will fall in place like dominos.

Perseverance and knowledge towards a well set plan are the keys to winning a game.

So keep playing a winning game!

Debra Seeck
Lifestyle Fitness and Dance Coach