Just Getting Started
I’m finding, more and more, that my biggest hurdle is just getting started. If I’m not feeling like doing my workout, for whatever reason, I find that if I just go ahead and get started anyways, 90% of the time, I’m fine. I complete the workout, and feel better for having done so. If I don’t complete the workout then I gave in to the desire to be lazy, and I feel guilty for skipping out on my commitment to myself.
As you may have guessed, yes, I did finally start my workout last night, and yes, it was fine. I certainly felt better about myself than I did the night before when I DID choose to skip the workout. I’m definitely planning on doing tonight’s workout, though it’s easy to be motivated to do it when I’m still chained to my desk at work. Maybe I need be better about starting the workout shortly after I get home… procrastination seems to be my downfall. The longer I put it off, the more time I have to make excuses about NOT doing it.
Makes me think of the Nike magazine ads that were out for awhile - “If you went running when you first thought about it, you’d be back by now.”
The only way I get myself to go to the gym and workout is to do it before I get home from work. If I go home first then 99% of the time I don’t go. I just pack my bag the night before and suck it up and change in the locker room.
Do you work out at a gym? At home?
I find that to be my biggest hurdle, too. Once I’m out the door, it’s easier. If I can get out the door, I think “well I’ll just do 5 mins” and then 5mins is up and I think “well, just a few more blocks” and then they are up, and then I think “well now I need to get home!” and then TA DA! Done.
You reminded me, too, how interesting Nike’s ads can be. I’m not a big Nike fan, but I do like their ads!