2-3-4 Friday
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1 thought
Please don’t think I’m crazy for telling you this.
But I’ve exercised for 1214 consecutive days.
Since Singapore went into lockdown on 7 April 2020, I’ve exercised for at least 15 minutes a day - weights, run, whatever.
The point isn’t that this is not a world record.
The point is the lesson.
It’s about how you do things you hate doing, even when you hate them. But you know they are good for you. The common example is that of work, or exercise. And we all know the exercise habit that we’ve dropped.
Let me first start. You might think that you can’t do this because
you are:
- Not well disciplined. You
would rather sleep than take time to exercise.
- You can’t seem to find enough motivation to start doing the work you want to do.
So this is where we often make the mistake of thinking that we need to feel the motivation, and wait for the motivation to strike us before we actually take the actions.
We think motivation happens before.
What we don’t realise is that motivation happens after you start doing the work.
So I urge you to try this.
If you want to exercise, even if you don’t feel like it, just go out of your house, put on your shoes, and go down. Tell yourself its just going to be a five minute run, and if you’re sick and tired, well… you can stop.
Chances are, you won’t.
1 talk
Waiting for motivation doesn't work. Doing the work first without motivation, does.
1 tip
Miss once, but don’t miss twice.
If you miss one workout, don’t make the habit of missing the next.
John
Live Young, Live Well - Work Your Love
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