Time, part 2

That relationship to time that I was writing about yesterday is about the future, too. 

Most of the time, when we work out, we want to be in the present moment.  That’s the one we have influence on.  That’s where change happens.  If we’re working with a trainer, our trainer will help us stay focused on what we’re doing in the moment.

 

But.  We also need to have a little bit of consciousness of the future.  That’s where motivation comes from.

 

Say, for example, that I’m doing burpees.  I don’t like burpees.  Almost nobody likes burpees.  They’re hard and uncomfortable and we get sweaty and all that.  If we are too much in the present moment while doing burpees, those of us who are sane are going to say enough of this and stop.  But if we remember that our goal is to have enough stamina for a marathon or for a marathon game of tag with our kids or grandkids, we will keep going.  We use our future goal to fuel our present work.

 

Some goals are better than others, but I can’t say definitively which ones because the best goals are the ones that motivate each of us.  Mine are not yours.  It’s worth spending a bit of time visualizing your future awesome self doing whatever it is that inspires you.  That will get you through the burpees.