“I’ll start tomorrow.”
“I don’t know where to start.”
“I don’t have time.”
“I don’t have a gym membership.”
“I’m hopeless.”
“I’m too old to start now.”
“I don’t have room in my house.”
Have any of those excuses come from you in the past? Heck, have you said them just yesterday?! Guess what, your tomorrow has arrived. You can make the time. You don’t need a gym membership. You are not hopeless. You’re never too old to take care of you. You don’t need a lot of space. In fact, I did them in the laundry room!

I’ll tell you what. Let’s just take a small step today. Take another small step tomorrow then the next day and the next day. Just as Robert Collier said, “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” He said nothing about procrastination of those small efforts. Now, have you got five minutes?

Consider getting out of bed just five minutes earlier. WHAT?!? Yep, just start with the small step of getting up five minutes earlier each day. Oh, yeah, I can hear your skepticism now because you think you can’t make a difference with just five minutes; am I right? Ever heard of the compound effect? One of my favorite books is called “The Compound Effect, by Darren Hardy. Darren defines the Compound Effect this way: “It’s the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices. Success is earned in the moment to moment decisions that in themselves make no visible difference whatsoever, but the accumulated compounding effect is profound.” Five minutes each day. That’s all…just five minutes.

While it may seem like that simple gesture of getting out of bed five minutes earlier won’t make a difference, over time it will, but that’s only if we get started. We can do anything for five minutes, right? But wait….what should I do in those five minutes? I’m glad you asked. Here is a series of five moves. Do each for one minute.
Step 1 – Believe you can because you can.
Step 2 – Do the following 5 moves for one minute each
1. Jumping jacks (see low-impact version in video below)
2. Squats (see modified version in video below)
3. Run in place at a rigorous pace. (see low-impact version in video below)
4. Bicycle Crunches
5. Cooldown stretches while your muscles are still warm

Getting started truly is the hardest part, but we’ve got to start somewhere, right? Don’t put it off another day because we deserve to be healthy, and it’s only five minutes. You have five minutes, don’t you?

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