31/10/2020
JUST BOOK IT.
Stop watching whichever trainer you like following, whichever group session you normally go to or like the look of. JUST BOOK IT. BOOK THEM.
No doubt you have got your goal in mind, you know what you want and you know getting the training in, is going to get you there.
Now here’s the thing, if you rely solely on your GOAL as a target and motivation you’ll be doing two things that WILL GO AGAINST YOU.
1) Delaying happiness; if you won’t allow yourself to be satisfied or happy until that very day THE GOAL IS REACHED you essentially are denying yourself the chance to pat yourself on the back every workout you slog away at along the way, because you’re “not there yet”.
2) A goal will motivate you for a short while, and for that short while you’ll probably make some great headway, but without a system in place it is inevitably doomed to fail.; A sustainable system that you are happy with, that is the trajectory, the path to your goal, is the absolute key to everything.
TRAJECTORY, DIRECTION, PATH, JOURNEY, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, SHOULD RANK HIGHEST ON YOUR PRIORITY LIST.
Here’s an example action plan:
(i) Get a Goal
(ii) Seek professional advice on how to achieve it within a proportionate timeframe.
(iii) Have blind faith and trust that process.
(iv) Start
(v) Stick to it
(vi) EVERY SINGLE moment of EVERY DAY that you are ON the path advised, every workout you walk into that is ALIGNED with the advice, that is ON the path, congratulate yourself, BE HAPPY you made it, YOU’RE ON the right track.
Repeat the above point ad infinitum safe in the knowledge you’re going to float to your goal on a wave of positive energy.
(vii) Hit Goal, Smash Through It. Tweak It, Go Again.
SPOILER: There is no “when i can do this, I’ll be happy.” , “when I am 2 stone lighter, it’ll be better” , “when i can bench 100kg, I can relax” - there’s always more, and the arrival at a target is sometimes underwhelming - SO G YOURSELF UP EVERY. SINGLE. TIME You make an action at all that places your feet firmly within the confines of the right path.
