Summer is here in two days. Is your vacation enough motivation for you?

As I am writing this post, I am in Illinois watching 3 of my granddaughters while all 4 of my daughters are sitting on the beach in Punta Cana, they attended a beach wedding of a family member.

What does that have to do with this post you may ask? They were going to the beach and a wedding too, that's twice the stress of getting into shape and yet they don't exercise on a regular basis. A few of them started working out a couple months ago, but will they continue now that the beach and the wedding is no longer a motivation for them? Only they will know that.

I certainly hope so, because I have seen them do this before, just like clients that come to me wanting to lose weight quickly and in my opinion unsafely. It still hasn't become a lifestyle for a few of them and I hope that changes eventually with them as with all of my clients.

As I was visiting with a couple of my other grand kids this morning and talking with my son in law, he had mentioned that when he and my daughter joined the club, she had talked about him not joining because he wasn't going to use it anyway. He took a stand and said yes he was going to join and has pretty much worked out every other day since joining.

Funny thing is; it was my daughter that wasn't going to the club after joining. Does that sound familiar? Does that sound like you, another friend or family member? Happens to all of us, until we either wise up and stop wasting the money or we come to the embarrassing conclusion that we aren't going to go, it was a great idea, but apparently not the right moment.

Until she made the commitment to attend the wedding and then faced with trying much to hard to lose and get into shape 2 months leading up till now, she didn't have the motivating force to go to the club. I didn't mention my son in laws motivation. He wanted to get a larger life insurance policy and found that he was in the high risk category and would cost too much.

He is still under the 6 month mark I believe and it will wonderful should he keep it up He also mentioned that he broke through some sort of plateau because it just seems easier this week. I congratulated him and said that is one of the hardest parts of my coaching, telling a client that it's much easier to stick with a plan than to start and stop all the time.