subject: Your Actions Are What Create Motivation To Exercise [print this page] Your Actions Are What Create Motivation To Exercise
You know you need to exercise more and eat better. Too much excess fat weight, too little muscle tone, too much flab and too little energy and you know all of these things can be fixed with proper exercise and healthy eating.Just making that decision and deciding that you need to exercise more will make you feel good....almost like you have already got started. But following through is where the problem begins when the motivation has all but disappeared. If that has happened to you before may it is time to concentrate on the 'motivation' issue as deciding you need to exercise it important, but, it is what you do to follow through that really matters most.Just what is this 'motivation' thing? It seems we all want it and most of us would like more of it. The perfect exercise program or the latest eating plan is of no use in the absence of the drive to take action. It is through motivation that gets things done not only at the beginning but after that as well. You may be asking yourself "Am I going to stick to my exercise program?" We all know that starting a new exercise program is the hard part but turning it into permanence in your life is really just a matter of sorting out what is important to you - your priorities.Have a think about it - do you want to be overweight or slim and trim, do you want to have lots of energy or continue to drag yourself through the day, do you want your body to be strong and firm or weak and flabby and do you want to be free of disease or risk something very nasty that could not only wreck your life but shorten it as well?If you want the good bits then that is where your motivation will come from. These things will drive you to keep going. Being healthy and strong and disease proofing your body has to be right at the top of your priority list of important things in your life. These things have a huge impact on the quality of your life - your zest and 'get-up-and-go' increases, you feel so much better than you would without proper exercise, and you will look so much better as well.Motivation is not something that just comes to you, it is something deep inside that propels you forward and it changes from day to day. What got you going yesterday may not do the job today. You will always be working at making it better and stronger and like anything in life with practice it gets better. No one else can do it for you and you would not want them too anyway. It is something very precious and no amount of money in the world can buy it. When you can draw on your own reservoir of motivation - that thought, goal, feeling, reward or incentive that gets you moving you will get to understand what really makes you tick. You will begin to realize that your actions are what generate that very thing you have been searching for - motivation.
