How to exercise regularly (even if you feel unmotivated)


Even in prison Nelson Mandela stuck to his physical exercise as he revealed in many interviews.

We, on the other hand, spin up excuses to skip exercising:

  • There’re no tools
  • The environment is unsuitable
  • Stress already fills our hours

And you know you can add.

But if we compare our circumstances with that which stood against Mandela in that prison?

Our excuses aren't even flimsy.

Turns out, all our excuses for not exercising are due mainly to our laziness, our lack of commitment.

Yeah, I know it hits you on your face. But nothing can be truer than this statement: 9 times out of 10, we forge unreal excuses to run away from physical workouts.

You might say that Mandela took to exercise because in the prison one hardly has a hectic to-do list to go about.

Even if this was true for Mandela, then the emotional trauma heaped upon him quite outweighed the ease of free time.

If we know that exercise is of prime consequence, then we have to make space for it. This may include cutting out other activities from our schedule.

Imagine you’re to cross a river by a boat which has a limited capacity to carry your stuff to the other side, else it would capsize.

However much you try, you’re unable to stuff all your articles in the boat.

You know that you have to leave behind something if you ever want to go the other side, and you have only one single chance.

If you’re a carpenter, you can’t afford leaving behind any of your tools, but you can certainly do without your DVD player.

If a chef, you can’t think of leaving behind spices, recipes and other mixtures of ingredients prepared by you. But fancy clothes fall far beyond the scope of your necessities.

The point is that if exercise is so vital to you that you can’t scrap it off your working boat, then throw out something less important to make space for it. If you can’t, then regret not for excluding exercising from your schedule. It would disrupt your focus, court negativity, and further corrupt your performance.

Well, here’re a few benefits that exercising brings, though it’s incomplete:

  • It boosts creativity
  • It uplifts your mood
  • It knocks off your stress
  • It reverses aging
  • It keeps you in a smart shape
  • It inoculates you against diseases

And there’re abundant more benefits tagged with it.

But the core question?

Ask yourself if the benefits brought forth by exercising are worth the effort and can you manage without them?

If your answer is no, never again think about exercising. Clear and final.

But if you say yes?

Deprive yourself from something. It can be news, Facebook, sleeping, dating, videogames, hanging around with friends or whatever is of second import.

Take a call.

Or never think about exercise. Maybe smart work and looks aren’t as vital for you as other things.

Honest as hell.

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