Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. We need it. And we also need to remember that it lies to us. We get all excited: we’re going to do All The Things! We’re going to eat only whole foods, exercise for three hours a day, lose 50 pounds, and meditate like a guru! And on the second day, we’re exhausted and crabby and we find ourselves sitting on the couch eating Oreos out of the package. Or maybe that’s just me.
What we want to do is use our enthusiasm wisely. Let it help us get out of bed in time to work out, but don’t let it convince us to try to do everything at once. It is hard to sustain our enthusiasm over time—this is why all those Rocky movies have workout montages—we want to fast-forward to the results!
We may have a whole bunch of really wonderful, important goals for our fitness. It really is best to get excited about consistent, small steps. We need to learn the tortoise’s lesson again and again.
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