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Happy Friday All!
Wow, I regret that I've spent so much time out of the rhythm of doing Friday emails! I think for a while there I ran out of stories to tell, and I didn't want it to feel forced or to send out pieces that I didn't think were good just for the sake of "putting out content" (to use today's ever popular "business-speak"). It may be a fitting metaphor to the plight of potential gym-goers that I hope to help - the ones who get out of the routine of going to the gym, and then find it hard to come back and reinvent the process. So, here I am, starting back up again after a hiatus. As my friend and personal training client Michael told me earlier this week: It's both simpler than it looks, and more complex than it appears.
As another friend and gym-goer noted earlier this week as well - you start off doing something because it's fun. Then you start treating it like 'work', and when that happens you don't want to do it anymore! It has crossed over from 'hobby' to 'task', and that creates a mental process around it. If you have to do it - it feels uninspired. If you don't do it, you feel guilty. The end result being cognitive dissonance and a mental 'shelfing' of the object, out of sight out of mind. Again, it could be a fitting metaphor to many people's experience with fitness.
The answer, it would seem, is to put as much attention into one's relationship with the project as goes into the relationship to the outcome. To be willing to start over, to look at it as a learning process, and to suspend judgement of yourself and others so that new inspiration has a place to strike.
Once again - simpler than it looks, more complex than it appears.
Happy Friday!
Josh