AFP Health Reviews

Have you ever heard the phrase: “Nobody’s perfect”? I’m sure you
have heard this at one point or another. If you are anything like me,
you believed it too. Most people do believe it because it makes sense. I
know for a fact that I have made mistakes. I also know that everyone
else I know has made mistakes.

Mistakes are part of being human.
If you are human, you make mistakes. There are mistakes to be made in
all areas of life. Anything you do that involves thinking, decisions or
execution of a skill presents the opportunity for a mistake. That
doesn’t sound like a very optimistic view, but it is true.

The
optimistic view would say that any thought, decision or execution of a
skill presents an opportunity for success. This is where I often see the
importance of mistakes in our lives. That’s right, mistakes are
important. Mistakes are what we learn from. Mistakes are what make us
better. Without mistakes, we don’t improve.

More importantly,
without the opportunity for mistakes, we have no opportunity for
success. When it comes to sports, this is a no-brainer: if you don’t
play the game, you can’t win. If you relate it to business: if you don’t
call a prospect, you can’t make the sale. If you don’t show up to the
meeting, you can’t contribute ideas. The list goes on and on and it’s
the same in all areas of life. Without the opportunity for mistakes,
there is no opportunity for success.

The bottom line is: if you are afraid to make mistakes, you will never succeed.

This
is a lesson I learned a kid. Sports taught me this lesson. It took a
few more lessons in the real world before I fully understood it and how
it would work in the business world. Now that I get it, life and
business are much easier. Do I see mistakes and failure? Of course I do.
I experience them regularly. But I also see success daily. Some success
comes from just trying again. Most of my success comes from the things I
learned from the past mistakes.

When it comes to health, mistakes
are also important. Yet, health is an area that people are afraid to
make them. When discussing exercise routines with people, I hear far too
often: “I can’t do it every day, so I’m not going to do it at all.” Or
“I don’t have time to do it for an hour, so I won’t do it at all.”

These are excuses that I hear frequently. I hear them,
not because these people are not good enough to get exercise, not
because exercise is too hard for them. I hear these excuses because
these people are afraid to make mistakes. It is easy to start a new
routine. It is not easy to keep a new routine going. Each time you run
into a challenge, it is difficult to overcome it.

Challenges will
arise. Your plan to overcome these challenges is what will get you
through. When you set out to do something new, you are bound to make a
mistake or two. When you make those mistakes, you can do one of two
things:

1. You can give up

2. You can learn from the mistake and try again

When you try
again, you can either give a similar strategy another try or you can
start over and try something new. Either way, you are deciding that you
are not done and you are able keep going. When you keep going, you can
succeed. When you quit, you can't succeed.

In health, mistakes are
not the end of your routine unless you quit. They are simply a
roadblock that causes you to stop and think about what you are doing.
You have a choice at every roadblock. You can choose to give up or you
can choose to keep trying.

The choice is yours. When we were kids,
we learned that nobody's perfect. We learned that quitters never win
and winners never quit. We learned all of these things and applied them
to other areas of life. Socially, professionally and financially, we
have chosen to keep going. In order to live healthy we need to make that
same choice. You can try to be perfect, but it won't happen.

Being
perfect is an illusion. For some reason, we think that our health
routines need to be perfect. The fact is, nobody is perfect in any area
of life, including health. Healthy people are not healthy because they
are perfect. They are healthy because they have learned from mistakes
and keep trying to live healthy. Health is not about being perfect. Stop
trying to be perfect and start doing something that you can do today.
If you make a mistake, learn from it and do something differently until
it works for you.