Joined a gym this past January? Bank account showing it - but not results?
So you made a pledge to get fit this past January 1st, and you feel pretty discouraged because that monthly withdrawal is a constant reminder of your failed attempt.
Don't fret, not all is lost, but you have to put a couple of things clear in your head if you're going to get back on track.
Clearly the money lost, is not a great enough incentive or you would be going to the gym and you would have no interest in this post.
So you made a pledge to get fit this past January 1st, and you feel pretty discouraged because that monthly withdrawal is a constant reminder of your failed attempt.
Don't fret, not all is lost, but you have to put a couple of things clear in your head if you're going to get back on track.
Clearly the money lost, is not a great enough incentive or you would be going to the gym and you would have no interest in this post.
As people, we don't evaluate everything on their monetary cost. We give great consideration to the cost of our time, and we don't like things cutting into, what we feel are our moments of pleasure. Lost time from doing something we like, in exchange for something we don't like; is definitely something we avoid.
A forty dollar gym membership can easily take the back seat to the thought of going home, kicking up your feet, and watching Dr.Phil; before the mad rush of supper, homework, and kitchen cleanup hits.
So if forking out 40 dollars every month just makes you feel bad, but doesn't produce enough sense of loss that a one hour T.V. marathon looks like a more valuable way to spend your time; what's going to get you to the gym?
To say that you want to get fit isn't really enough. Getting fit takes time and you risk getting discouraged before you see and feel any results. You can use improved fitness as a long term goal, but what do you see as the short term goal?
Long term goals are made with your rational brain, in the safety of abstract thought, calculating possibilities, fantasizing from within the security of your mind. There's no temptation in the imaginings of the rational mind, but it's that emotional side of us that sways our actions in the present moment. The rational mind is helpless when the emotional brain steps in and wants immediate pleasure. In short term, we like to feel good! That's why sugar is so popular, it tastes good now, I'll worry about my weight later.
Clearly, your return to your January resolution, rides on how you sell the value of your short term goal to yourself, because it's the short term that's going to help you to produce the habits that'll get you to your long term goal. One thing is fore sure; you're going to have to make the decision to go to the gym as equally compelling as the call of any other distraction that can arise. You have to make the choice to exercise, your absolute priority that nothing takes precedence over it.
Don't see the value of the 40 dollars from a monetary perspective. Think about it as a commitment you made in a time when you came to the realization that something had to change in your life. But like any busy person can allow, everything got put before your need to take care of yourself and your health somehow became less valuable than the very things that are holding you back.
A forty dollar gym membership can easily take the back seat to the thought of going home, kicking up your feet, and watching Dr.Phil; before the mad rush of supper, homework, and kitchen cleanup hits.
So if forking out 40 dollars every month just makes you feel bad, but doesn't produce enough sense of loss that a one hour T.V. marathon looks like a more valuable way to spend your time; what's going to get you to the gym?
To say that you want to get fit isn't really enough. Getting fit takes time and you risk getting discouraged before you see and feel any results. You can use improved fitness as a long term goal, but what do you see as the short term goal?
Long term goals are made with your rational brain, in the safety of abstract thought, calculating possibilities, fantasizing from within the security of your mind. There's no temptation in the imaginings of the rational mind, but it's that emotional side of us that sways our actions in the present moment. The rational mind is helpless when the emotional brain steps in and wants immediate pleasure. In short term, we like to feel good! That's why sugar is so popular, it tastes good now, I'll worry about my weight later.
Clearly, your return to your January resolution, rides on how you sell the value of your short term goal to yourself, because it's the short term that's going to help you to produce the habits that'll get you to your long term goal. One thing is fore sure; you're going to have to make the decision to go to the gym as equally compelling as the call of any other distraction that can arise. You have to make the choice to exercise, your absolute priority that nothing takes precedence over it.
Don't see the value of the 40 dollars from a monetary perspective. Think about it as a commitment you made in a time when you came to the realization that something had to change in your life. But like any busy person can allow, everything got put before your need to take care of yourself and your health somehow became less valuable than the very things that are holding you back.
