Have you noticed how difficult it can be to stick with your healthy eating and exercise plan? There’s always a good reason to take a break from the gym or to indulge in comfort foods. This keeps your ideal body just out of reach.

There’s a very simple reason for this phenomenon: If you’re looking for an excuse the universe will provide you with one. Every. Single. Time.

But I’m not looking for an excuse. Those things were out of my control. I wanted to stick with the program, but I caught a cold, and then life got busy.

If someone offered you a million dollars to stick with your diet and exercise program for 6 months could you do it?

You bet you could! And you’d probably even do it for 100 thousand dollars.

This means that if you had a great enough incentive then you’d stick with your program and get results. So right now the incentive, the motive, the desire just isn’t great enough to protect you against all of the excuses that the universe has to throw at you.

Find your incentive. Results will follow.

Also, remember that there are some things that satisfy even more than a pile of cash. When you are living life at your ideal weight, in good health, and full of energy you just might feel like a million bucks!