Sometimes it’s hard to reach our goals.  Oh, it’s easy to start.  It’s even manageable to keep it up for a few days, or even weeks, but when the hard stuff hits, we are thrown off track.  And when we mess up, we figure we’ve ruined everything, so we stop.  Sometimes the hard part is continuing.  We don’t fail because we don’t start.  We don’t fail because it’s too difficult.  We fail because we don’t finish.  We can be our own worst enemy.  

Have you ever stopped doing something, only to look back months later and say “If only I had stuck with it, I would be much further along by now?”  

I recently purchased a new elliptical for home use, and I figured I’d review it in case anyone else is in the market as well.  Although I didn’t want the commercial equipment price tag, I was concerned at first about getting cardio equipment that was designed for home use because of what I call the “cheese factor” – meaning some machines feel cheesy, flimsy, and/or rickety. 

I know I will use my elliptical often and I don’t want it falling apart on me.  I started by going to the sports stores and actually getting on the ellipticals and trying them out, then I looked up the ones I was interested in online.