It’s 5pm, and I want nothing to do with a 3 mile run. I try to psych myself into it by envisioning my run — bad idea. All I can think about are the same boring turns, the same boring streets, the tired feeling I get towards the end. Maybe I’ll run tomorrow. No, I need to run today.
As I started the timer on my watch and took my first few steps it felt natural and effortless. It just felt right. When I started running again last April, those first few steps were painful and awkward and the only thing that kept me going was the thought “It won’t always be like this; it will only get better!” What a difference a year makes, but that mantra still holds true; I have not arrived — it only gets better.
“Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!” – Zig Ziglar
More simply put:
“Every damn day. Just do it.” – Nike T-shirt
Darn it! Your posts like this remind me of what I should be doing…Oh how I wish I’d never got out of the habit of daily exercise. If you loose it, it takes a lot of work to get the motivation back again. Keep going hard!