Making an appointment with myself

I am twitter fan (@crazechickadee if you want to follow) and on twitter I follow a whole manner of weird and silly twitter feeds...including a variety of women's health and fitness, motivation quotes etc etc.

So anyway, one of these random tweeters (women's motivation I think) said when planning exercise make an appointment with yourself, and keep it.

It makes sense really, we make appointments at work to see people, meetings etc, we make appointments with doctors, dentists, hairdressers, beauty therapists that we promise to keep, rarely miss! We make appointments to meet friends for lunch, to visit family for dinner, to be with others at the time that suits.

So when I saw this tweet I thought "this really makes sense" (my manfriend was particularly impressed by it!).

So instead of saying "I'll try make the gym on Monday", or "I'll exercise 3 times this week", I am going to try changing the way I look at this instead.

Now I make an appointment with myself. I put it (in pen) in my diary - Tuesday 1pm Swim with Sarah Conway, Thursday 7pm Bokwa with Sarah and Tracey, Monday 11.00am Kettlebells dvd - 20mins - with Sarah Conway.

Obviously this looks a bit crazy to anyone reading with diary - but it makes a bigger impression that just putting swim 1pm. By putting my name against it I view it the way I would view a meeting or home visit with any of my clients, or colleagues, or friend, or family. I put myself on the same level of importance as all these other people. Me, and my exercise, is as important as anything else in my life.

By forward planning my exercise over the week, or even a month, I can schedule my other appointments around it, rather than exercise around my life. My clients don't know that the reason I have to meet them at 2 is because I have a swim at 1... and they don't need to know.

So my diary is organised, my exercise is planned, as is my meals.