Exercise your body 'and' the mind
As I stand waiting and wanting the next exercise in my gym, i observe something.
I see people with their trainers and wanting to be pushed.
To me, this is not a good long-term solution, but as a short term, if someone needs to be guided or shown on how to use the different equipment’s in the gym, why not. However, i find these examples everywhere with situations that we face.
Everyone, including myself, needs to be pushed and what if we can change that thinking to been pulled towards our goals in life.
This is why I truly believe in the concept of having the right mental strength / resilience to win in different areas of our life.
Let me stick with the gym, as an example.
Someone, who is currently going to the gym and as a trainer starts to follow the rigorous regimen by the trainer. This person starts to loose weight, starts getting in shape and finds approval/positivism from people around them.
They are very proud of their achievement, but what happens, once they decide to do it on their own either because it gets too expensive for them or have the confidence in them to do so. This is where most fall-out because they are used to having someone push them.
Thus, the importance of cultivating habits or even better a deeper motivation within them self to continue doing the process.
Motivation needs to come within themselves. One of the ways to finding motivation, is understanding why they are doing , what they are doing. One needs to reach that stage or threshold where they can continue once they reach they know their underlying motivation within.
To understand that, this is why I preach the importance of having the right mental tools to empower individuals. Someone with the right mental capacity can push themselves physically and someone who has then the right physical capacity, can push one mentally.
It is a cycle of continuous positivity and thus going to that desired state.
This is why, the importance of having someone as a mentor or a guide or a coach or a trainer to help them to reach that threshold. Once they reach there, even the sky becomes limitless.