What if it was a job?

Every day we have commitments. We have our families, our jobs, our pets, our friends, houses to clean, shopping, texting, whatever. How much of that stuff do you give yourself permission to treat it as optional? Do you say, I can't change the baby's diaper because I am too __________ (fill in blank with excuse). Yet for so many of us (I am included), we give ourselves permission to treat how we fuel our bodies and exercise them as something optional. We treat it as something that isn't really that important. What if your job description was: Make healthy food choices and get a reasonable amount of exercise? Would you be able to stick to it then because it is no longer an optional part of your life? Would you be fired because you still just don't want to get up and do anything?

There are so many posts asking for the motivation to get up and make the changes. When I get up in the morning to get ready for work, I want to go back to bed many days and spend time doing any number of other things. I don't. I get up and go to work because it is not optional. So what if getting into shape and getting healthy are part of the new job description? Can we all just agree that there are days we will love it, days we will hate it, but in the end, it isn't optional. We have to suck it up and just do it?