All too often, people will notice summer looming around the corner, and suddenly feel inspired enough to proclaim, their goals. That's the sound of danger music. Because to err is human but when someone's about to do something especially ridiculous, the director queues the danger music. Beginners yoga Orange County CA training goals should be practical, in line with one's long-term health objectives, and, most importantly, achievable. So, no reaching for the 300 pound barbell on your first visit.
Without rapidly made improvements to their physiques, most people are quick to throw in the towel and call it a day. Yet, the opposite also stands true: should they manage to achieve the body of their dreams, and in record time too, they're just as likely to quit at that point as the person in the first example who had not managed to make any real progress.
Then it is off to McDonald's for two celebratory Big Macs, washed down by a large Diet Coke, which they hope is big enough to cut a few calories off the burgers before they're digested. One can not really blame them. After all, they have a lifetime of bad habits compelling them toward the burgers. But with only a week invested into getting into shape, the new activity had not had the opportunity to take root within their subconscious minds. The minimum of fourteen days required to form a new habit had not been reached yet, so working out regularly still felt like a foreign concept to them.
Most people's motivations are like the wind: it merely comes and goes, blowing to and fro. And being more captivated by outside appearances than their inner-drives, gladiators-in-training are prone to dropping the gauntlet at the first sign of opposition. They had not endured their trial by fire yet, reflexively pulling back from the flame before they even had the chance to touch it.
Moments later, and in vivid detail, they'd be able to tell you all about the flame and how it felt. Because, in their mind's eye, they were able to see the flame and even imagine how it would feel. And to such an extent that they could feel it burning them before they have even come within inches of it. Individual conditioned themselves to place the pain before the gain. And since the pain was given higher priority in their minds, they were unable to see beyond it to actually achieve the gains to be made from the exercise.
The simple solution would have been for them to have placed more emphasis on the vision of how they would have benefitted from subjecting themselves to the fire, rather than focusing on the fire itself. Simply put, burning feels bad; but coming out on the other side of the experience, feels good.
Simply visualizing the intended outcome would have inspired enough motivation to overcome, and endure, any temporary discomfort encountered. Keeping one's eye on the prize is simply a means to an end. Professional athletes do it. Navy Seals do it. Successful businessman, do it. Even goddesses of victory like Nike and just do it. So why does not the average person simply do it? The short answer, it requires some discipline. And perhaps only a couple weeks of it before it becomes habit. Easy enough for the superior man, but for the average person, it can be a bit of a chore.
And with recent studies confirming that nearly 50% of people's daily activities are being motivated purely by habit i. E. People spend nearly half waking-lives operating on autopilot, it's hardly far-fetched to conclude that whatever they decide to spend the next couple weeks doing could have a lasting impact on the course of the rest of their lives.
Without rapidly made improvements to their physiques, most people are quick to throw in the towel and call it a day. Yet, the opposite also stands true: should they manage to achieve the body of their dreams, and in record time too, they're just as likely to quit at that point as the person in the first example who had not managed to make any real progress.
Then it is off to McDonald's for two celebratory Big Macs, washed down by a large Diet Coke, which they hope is big enough to cut a few calories off the burgers before they're digested. One can not really blame them. After all, they have a lifetime of bad habits compelling them toward the burgers. But with only a week invested into getting into shape, the new activity had not had the opportunity to take root within their subconscious minds. The minimum of fourteen days required to form a new habit had not been reached yet, so working out regularly still felt like a foreign concept to them.
Most people's motivations are like the wind: it merely comes and goes, blowing to and fro. And being more captivated by outside appearances than their inner-drives, gladiators-in-training are prone to dropping the gauntlet at the first sign of opposition. They had not endured their trial by fire yet, reflexively pulling back from the flame before they even had the chance to touch it.
Moments later, and in vivid detail, they'd be able to tell you all about the flame and how it felt. Because, in their mind's eye, they were able to see the flame and even imagine how it would feel. And to such an extent that they could feel it burning them before they have even come within inches of it. Individual conditioned themselves to place the pain before the gain. And since the pain was given higher priority in their minds, they were unable to see beyond it to actually achieve the gains to be made from the exercise.
The simple solution would have been for them to have placed more emphasis on the vision of how they would have benefitted from subjecting themselves to the fire, rather than focusing on the fire itself. Simply put, burning feels bad; but coming out on the other side of the experience, feels good.
Simply visualizing the intended outcome would have inspired enough motivation to overcome, and endure, any temporary discomfort encountered. Keeping one's eye on the prize is simply a means to an end. Professional athletes do it. Navy Seals do it. Successful businessman, do it. Even goddesses of victory like Nike and just do it. So why does not the average person simply do it? The short answer, it requires some discipline. And perhaps only a couple weeks of it before it becomes habit. Easy enough for the superior man, but for the average person, it can be a bit of a chore.
And with recent studies confirming that nearly 50% of people's daily activities are being motivated purely by habit i. E. People spend nearly half waking-lives operating on autopilot, it's hardly far-fetched to conclude that whatever they decide to spend the next couple weeks doing could have a lasting impact on the course of the rest of their lives.
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