Get Started & 3 Tips to Quit your Excuses

We are full of excuses and you need to get over those evil twin beliefs. Life is all-consuming if you let it be. Get started with simple tips that will help you remain consistent, stop the all of nothing mentality and manage stress.

Get Started and Quit your Excuses with 3 tips

We are full of excuses and blame everything and everyone else for our lack of focus, consistency and time. My hope is that you decide, identify, plan and take action with anything on this list. It will help you be consistent and you will be on your way to feeling and looking better. Real life goes something like this:

• 👩‍👩‍👧 Work, family, and personal commitments pulling you in 10 directions
• 🛒 Grocery shopping, meal prep, and endless daily decisions
• 🎒 School routines, notes, emails, emotions, and kids
• 🧹 Cleaning, laundry, and house responsibilities
• ❤️ Relationship ups and downs
• 😴 Feeling exhausted and putting yourself last

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It’s no wonder you hear yourself saying things like:

❌ “I don’t have time to work out.”
❌ “I’ll start Monday.”
❌ “I’m too tired, I’ll do it later.”
❌ “I’m already failing, why bother?”
❌I can’t afford it

These are just excuses that keep you stuck. The good news? You can flip the script with my simple D.I.P. Method: Decide, Identify, and Plan.

3 Tips to D.I.P. | Decide, Identify & Plan

Stop telling yourself this story day after day and write your new story. September is a trigger for me which I have identified from years of coaching, therapy and deep diving into my own habits and behaviours. Here are three things that actually work:

1. Decide Your Top 3 Priorities 📝

Write down your 3 most important priorities right now (examples: fitness, nutrition, health, relationships, family, work).
Post them where you’ll see them daily — fridge, phone wallpaper/screen saver, bathroom mirror.
Put something for physical and mental fitness in the top 3 daily.
Decide how many days a week you’ll move (walk, stairs, fitness class).
Decide how much water you’ll drink daily.
Decide what you’ll let go of (time suckers like scrolling on your phone, Netflix, overthinking).

✅ Action Step: Write your Top 3 on paper right now. Practice this daily until it becomes a habit.

Watch this: 3 Tips to Identify Time Suckers

2. Identify Habits & Triggers 🔎

Pay attention to what makes you procrastinate or say “I’ll do it tomorrow.”
Write down what is going to get in your way, sabotage you and make you fail. Knowing is half the battle.
Identify your old patterns (skipping workouts, late-night snacking, hitting snooze).
Once you see your triggers, break up with them.
Remind yourself: That’s the old me, it’s my evil twin. The new me makes better choices. “We don’t do that anymore.”

✅ Action Step: Write down one old habit you’re ready to break, and the new one you’ll replace it with.

Watch this: How to Change Habits and Triggers