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Staying On Track
  • Trying to establish an exercise routine when you expect it to be a long hard task everyday is very difficult.
  • Initially your subconcious is resistant to physical exertion that seemingly has no point; it wants near-term pleaure.
  • Gradual exposure to the benefits of endorphins accompanied by longer-lasting energy and mood will sway the subconcious.
  • Until the subconcious is convinced or at least submissive, it will try to sabotage you with negative thoughts and rationalizations.
  • Knowing where these thoughts come from and rejecting them will gradually banish them not only from workouts but from your day to day life.
  • The rationalization that you don't have time is false because you get much more time back that would have been essentially wasted.
  • Visualizations are good ways to block out negative thoughts, not just because of the positive influence but because they eat up time.
  • Working out small details really helps eat up the time. For instance when I rode the bike, it cleared a virtual area around me that represented my future. The closer in the smoother the surface. So I'd think about whether it transitioned from pool cue smooth to putting green smooth. Should it start out smooth as ice. What's the deal on the forest fire constantly burning into the forest way out on my virtual horizon. Your virtual realities are literally without limit.
  • "Zoning", as I call it is also good for problem solving. I used to get on the bike when I had some logic problem to work out. You can sort of let all the pieces float around in your head. You pick one piece and start putting them togehter in your head. The most important thing is to "show up" every day. You know what Woody Allen said, and look what a hunk he is.
  • Don't be sabatoged by well meaning friends that want you to do something more "fun" and "outdoorsy". Variety is fine, but in some ways doing the same thing every day makes it almost transparent outside the time you're actually doing it. When I used to work near a gym, I went to the gym every morning, but I still rode the bike every evening, because the bike was to feel good when I got home, and the fact I had gone to the gym that morning had nothing to do with that, and I never gave it a second thought that I had already worked out once that day. It was irrelevant.
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