Choose your fuel wisely
If you only work harder at the gym when you know you’re going on holiday and want to look better for the beach, don’t be surprised if you struggle for motivation the rest of the year.
If you put lots of energy into your health and fitness because of a major life event; job loss or divorce, remember that you’ll need to find this sort of external motivation to defeat in the future.
If you’ve got a really big, almost unrealistic, goal and you don’t really know how to get there, it’s likely you’ll give up once the hurdles become too big to jump.
When we pick our fuel, the external motivation that we think we need, we pick the thoughts that will be with us for the journey ahead.
Building good habits, habits that take you closer to your goal not further away, will always outlast the external motivators that we think we need.
Internal fuel will always burn brighter and longer than any external fuel we can find. Simply focussing on our health and fitness because it’s a form of self care, the necessary thing to do, will lead us further for longer than trying to prove a point to anyone else.
We thrive most when we find a goal that means something to us. A goal that can be broken down measured along the way.
Choose your fuel wisely
