Excuses: They Are Easier To Come By Than Results
Excuses are very easy to come by, as are rationalizations, justifications, as is denial. You won’t have to search too deeply within yourself to dig up a reason why you shouldn’t do something that you have no interest in doing. That certainly can include going to the gym, on occasion.
Going to the gym isn’t always the most fun thing you can think of doing, but if you want to keep your progress on track, then you have to show up. Once you’re there, however, you have to make the effort. Getting there may be a big part of the battle, but what you do once there is of equal importance.
A few years ago, at my gym, Austin Fitness Center, I was training a client on an unusually cold, blustery, early morning, when the power went out. It’s pretty dark at 5am, virtually everywhere you go, and my gym was no exception. The music and lights being off, I said “whomever wants to home, go have a nice day. Whomever hasn’t reached their fitness goals, however, should stay and we’ll make this happen.” I positioned my pickup truck in front of the windows and with the diesel engine running, left the headlights on, flooding the facility with light. When we needed light in a corner, we shone our cellphone flashlights for one another. Nobody left and the workouts got done.
It would have been easy to justify leaving the gym during that scenario, but the fact was, that they all stuck it out, and everyone had a great workout.
Making excuses, and convincing yourself that you will do it later, is far easier than actually doing it. That goes for virtually everything in life. If you put your mind to the task, and put one foot in front of the other, and you do that consistently, you will achieve a lot more than if you procrastinate, and avoid the work needed to get you to your goals.
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