Day 27 – Week 4 – 4 mins

Oh – I reeeeaaallly did not want to get up this morning. It was the hardest day so far in terms of convincing myself to do  my minutes. Why that was, I have no idea. Was it because it was a Saturday and somewhere at the back of my brain I thought I DESERVED a day off? Am I getting bored with what I’m doing? Do I feel I’m not making progress? I don’t know – can’t explain it. The thing is – I know that if I just do this every day – I will achieve what I want to achieve.  And that’s what I told myself, as I was lying there in bed. I just have to do it – each and every day. No excuses.

I have found what works is to do this. Just concentrate on the next thing you have to do, and nothing else. So – when you are lying in bed wishing you could stay there – don’t think “But I have to get up and do my minutes”. Instead, just think – “I am getting up and going to the bathroom”. That’s it. That’s all you have to think. Then when you get to the bathroom you think “I just have to put on my exercise clothes”, and only then do you think about getting on and doing the exercise.

It’s amazing – we are all intelligent human beings who KNOW how essential exercise is, yet to do it consistently is the hardest thing. We really have to play these games with ourselves to do it, because it is oh so easy to just say, “You know what – I reckon I won’t do it today. What difference will it really make if I miss a day.” The easist thing in the world…..and that is what we are fighting, each and every day.

Keep fighting….they tell me that one day it will get easier…

Suzi