Are You Motivated?
Lately I haven’t been motivated to go to the gym. I pack my gym bag in hopes to get to the gym but I keep finding other things to do. When I finally get to the gym I walk aimlessly like I don’t know what to do. I leave the gym with a light sweat solely because I sat in the sauna and stretched. I can’t remember the last time I felt this way. It was starting to get me depressed. I was beginning to question my relationship with fitness.
So after a few weeks of “hoping” that I find some motivation – After countless times in the gym of “waiting” for something magical to happen when I walk in – I have decided to stop “hoping” and “waiting”. I am no longer packing my gym bag. I am no longer going to the gym. I am changing things up.
Sunday I climbed the cliffs of Del Mar with my daughter. We did cartwheels and handstands along the beach. Monday I ran three miles and took a yoga class. Tuesday I ran two miles in the morning, three miles in the afternoon and six miles in the evening. The last few days I have felt my best.
Hoping and Waiting is such an awful place to be in, its what we call “stuck in a rut”. Are you hoping you get the next job promotion? Are you waiting to make more money? Are you hoping and waiting your relationships: with
fitness, with your family, with your partner – hoping and waiting they get better? It is so easy to get stuck in a rut and hope / wait that something will get you out of the rut but that is giving up your power. Relationships aren’t about hoping and waiting. It is about making them happen. I have no idea when I will get back into the gym and thats just fine. I am pretty darn happy with my fitness relationship now that I am getting to spend more time
on my yoga mat and more miles in my running shoes.
Are you motivated?