Being a personal trainer, I hear all the time when someone is not motivated
They are not motivated to go to the gym, to go on that walk or run or not motivated to make the time to cook that ‘healthy’ meal
The truth is though… you don’t need to be motivated
People think I’m motivated all the time… I get comments like ‘urgh how are you so motivated all the time to go to the gym at 6am’ or ‘ I want your motivation to go on a run 3 times a week’
Now let me tell you something, I am not motivated… Do you think I want to be getting up at 6am to hit the gym? absolutely not! but I have to practice what I preach right? and from that I became disciplined
If someone is motivated they are known to be in a state of being motivated because they might have a strong reasoning to accomplish what they have set out to achieve. However, when someone is disciplined they act because it is an instruction or drill
Being disciplined will be the one thing that will change your mindset and the way you approach your goals…. Everyone is motivated at some point in their life to get up and go to the gym, but that will last, at most, 2 weeks (if you are lucky)
You will fall out of habit because life will get busy, or you suddenly cannot go one day because of work, you will then start to bring up the excuses
Pushing past that, you will also really show yourselves what you really are willing to achieve, and what you are cable of achieving.
Discpline is not something that will be achieved overnight either, as suggested above, its something that you build over time through creating and build habits to correlate aside your goals
To achieve being discipline can involve
- Setting a timer for when you should be going to the gym
- If you have a session with a personal trainer and wanting to complete a few more but independently schedule your workouts at the same time that you would have had your PT session on another day, then you know it will fit into your schedule
- Put your workout gear out the night before
- And if you haven’t got a personal trainer, then I recommend getting one as they will show you the routine to discipline
Lucy x