{"id":5044,"date":"2025-02-13T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/if-its-really-important-to-you-commit-to-show-up\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:31","slug":"if-its-really-important-to-you-commit-to-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/if-its-really-important-to-you-commit-to-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A7295814104542322688>If it&#8217;s really important to you, commit to show up.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s really important to you, commit to show up.<\/p>\n<p>For years (decades!), I said I wanted to do more strength training. And I didn&#8217;t do it. I knew the benefits, I knew it made me feel good, and I just never made the time. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, I finally admitted I wasn&#8217;t going to lift on my own, so I joined a nearby gym which has a use it or lose it policy to strength training sessions. But I still didn&#8217;t always make it twice a week as planned, because I would try to slot sessions in last minute after my work and family commitments. <\/p>\n<p>This year, I committed to just showing up twice a week and pre-emptively blocked the time off in my calendar. It makes a difference. I can see the progress when I show up consistently (plus the trainers push me harder knowing I want it).<\/p>\n<p>If you say something is important, but are trying to fit it in among all of your other commitments, it&#8217;s not important to you. Commit to the important things first, and accept that maybe you can&#8217;t get to all of the other things. <\/p>\n<p>P.S. I highly recommend the Functional Lifestyles gym if you live in the Palo Alto \/ Mountain View area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s really important to you, commit to show up. For years (decades!), I said I wanted to do more strength training. And I didn&#8217;t do it. I knew the benefits, I knew it made me feel good, and I just never made the time. Last year, I finally admitted I wasn&#8217;t going to lift&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5564,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}