"Better Late than Never" is something that was never taught in my home growing up. My dad would always make sure that we were extra early to everything. That has rubbed off on at least myself over the years. (Can't say the same for ONE of my sisters. Not mentioning any names here, but you know who you are) The only thing my dad was o.k. with being late to was church. Now it wasn't that we were always late on a typical Sunday. No, the only time it was o.k. to be late for church was when were getting back from a 10 hour drive home from Arkansas on a Sunday or Wednesday night and he made sure that we quietly caught whatever was left of the sermon.
Fast forward to current day, I am close to the same. Now I do not finish a 10 hour road trip with sitting my kids or myself for that matter in a church service, but I do make sure that I am early for most everything. Now how does that have anything to do with my journey? I have a habit that if I oversleep at all and have to rush out of bed and to the gym to be 5-10 minutes late, my habit is to just not go. This is something that I have to work on. Sure I do not want to show up for just the last half of the class, but if I am only 10 minutes late, I still get a good 40-50 of exercise in. This is something that I need to ingrain in my mind and live by.
One other option is to ADJUST the plan that you set up for yourself. Just because you overslept and missed the planned workout, you can still MAKE IT UP. This is what I did on Monday. I did not get up to go to my boot camp so my wife and I met at the gym after I got off work and did a Power Pump Class together. Sure it may have been different from what I wanted, but if I am so critical about the times that I work out, I will be constantly beating myself up for my "failure" and probably abandon my journey in the end.
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