I can get myself so motivated and committed to an excellent exercise plan like nobody's business. I plot out how much I'll increase each week until I reach my goal of exercising an hour a day. I'll get my workout playlists all ready to go for the next day, and then I go to bed. I am not a morning person, so its easy to talk myself into exercising later in the day. I would have to say waking up is my number 1 motivation buster.
# 2 is watching the television. If I sit down to watch the morning news, before I know it, it's noon, and then I can easily convince myself that I've wasted the morning, so I might as well forget about today and start tomorrow.
# 3 is the Solitaire game on my iPad. The time just races by, and before I know it, it's time to start supper.
# 4 is my inability to say no to anyone. If someone phones me and needs my help, I'm there. I know this is a good quality of mine, but I need to figure out a balance. I can spend all of one day, and usually all the next, doing a favor for someone. This is when I decide that my week is already shot, so I might as well wait until Monday.
# 5 is (have you guessed it yet) procrastination. I am the queen of rationalizing why I just have to put off doing something, then before I know it, I have procrastinated on so much that I find myself getting overwhelmed. This just leads to putting things off even longer.
So, in a nutshell, I do know how to motivate myself, and am actually quite good at it. My problem is maintaining the motivation and energy for any length of time.
I've always read that you can create a new habit (or break an old one) if you can do this new habit consistently everyday for 21 days. I found this article on how to keep yourself motivated, and honestly, none of these suggestions will work for me.
I think instead of setting a long-term exercise program, I'll focus on just 21 days, and see how that goes. I kept researching and did find this article that really speaks to me. The first one I read is to remember that feeling you have when you finish a good workout. I love that feeling. Just visualizing and feeling that feeling you get when you finish working out is already getting me motivated. YEA!
How do you deal with the lack of motivation? Does procrastination get in your way, as well?
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