Sometimes our usual
motivational strategies don’t work. Here
are three totally out-there strategies to try when all else fails—I have used
(do use) all of them.
1.
Pretend the workout is a montage. Music selection
is crucial here, whether you go all Rocky
or Cinderella Man or Flashdance or Chariots of Fire. Just remember
that you win.
2.
Take a picture. My Instagram is full of weird
pictures from my workouts. Finding, or
at least seeking, yet another angle from which to photograph my spin bike keeps
my brain whirling as fast as my feet.
3.
Tell a story. I take the same walk with my
dog every morning. When I take photos of
similar things over the course of several days, I make up a story to go along
with it. Currently, the story is the
adventures of the traffic cones (Orange Witch Hats, in my telling). I don’t know what they’re going to do next,
so I have to walk to find out.
The point is that we have
to do whatever works, even if it’s odd and we’re kind of embarrassed to tell
anyone about it.
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