I wasn’t feeling great the other day. I forced myself to start my workout, I struggled through it. I’ll be honest, I didn’t enjoy it.
There, I said it.
Why am I telling you this?
To let you know you’re not alone.
You see it’s easy to look at someone who’s fit and healthy and think, “yeah, but it’s easy for them.”
Thinking someone else has it easy or an advantage on the thing you want is really just another kind of excuse.
And we’re oh so good at making excuses aren’t we. I nearly made one myself to get out of the workout. You know why I didn’t?
Because I focused on my goal, on the outcome I wanted, rather than the task at hand.
Now, one workout isn’t going to make a physical difference one way or another (sorry folks another truth bomb), but it will make a mental difference.
Quick point here – I’m not talking about being ill or injured – then you definitely shouldn’t train. I’m talking about those days when you feel a bit off, a bit lazy, when you’re just not into it.
That’s your sub-conscious telling you to stay in bed a little bit longer. Put off doing that thing you need to do, because it will always seek the path of least resistance. It wants to stay comfortable.
The problem is comfortable and growth are opposing states, so you have to choose.
Sometimes, that can be hard. That’s when I go back to my “why”, my reason for wanting this.
It would have been so easy to skip that workout, to laze around.
But you know what? Not only did I feel better for having done it, but the next day I felt even more motivation to push it harder and go for it, because I’d reinforced to myself that this was now the path I was on.
You’re not alone. It’s not always easy, but you can do this. If you need help reach out.
Remember, success doesn’t come from that one big thing, it comes from the culmination of small steps taken every day…
Where are you choosing comfort over growth in your life?
