THE MYTH OF MOTIVATION (AND WHAT YOU NEED INSTEAD)

Can someone summarize this for me. I wasn't motivated or interested enough to make it past the first third. I had some running to do.

Can someone summarize this for me. I wasn't motivated or interested enough to make it past the first third. I had some running to do.

You're going running and your ticker is on the right side. You really don't need a summary anyhow. Just keep doing what you've been doing.

This post is so on the money for me. All my life I have been fat, now extremely fat, and I have always made out like I didn't care or wasn't bothered, boy was I bothered! And as I have gotten older, fatter and much less fit I have just ignored it and tucked into another of whatever I wanted. Indecision, apathy and frankly laziness have been my watchwords for years, and as I hurtle towards an early grave with the chocolate still staining my lips and lining my arteries, I have finally found that my blinkered view of everything that is happening to my body and my mental health could have and can still be avoided.

So I've made my decision, strengthened my resolve and I am on the road to recovery.

20lbs down, many more to go. :happy:

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Bump!

This combined with the Derpes thread is fantastic.

Good post for the spirit of it...but...

Those men, soldiers standing in that down pour don't have a choice, it wasn't their decision...it was an order..

I know that from being ex military myself and doing centaph duty on rainy cold Novembers...no choice.

But I do feel movitvation is a myth..my profile says how I feel...you either want it bad enough or you don't....end of that quote is "it's a choice you make".

And I believe that.

and those soldiers executed that order because....

They had discipline.

Discipline is doing something even when you don't want to. Yes, discipline can be used for good or ill, but when you are making your own decisions, discipline to execute your decisions will define you.

We should not let life "happen" to us. We should grab it by the throat and bend it to our will.

Like you, I got to the point where I wanted it bad enough. I was unwilling to accept what was "happening" to me. I made a decision.

To misquote, "Be the change you want in you."

And, BTW I also decided I will never go back to the desert, or CENTAF, again.

USAF retired

You know that is so true! I have people tell me that all the time, that it must of been really hard, well it wasn't a walk in the park, but it wasn't that difficult either. I tell people that you have to have the right mind set, if you don't really want to put forth the effort then it is not going to happen. I was ready to make the changes and I did. Then I started seeing results and it made me that much more motivated....Just like my mother who quit smoking after over 40 years of it. She had tried to quit before a dozen times, but this time was different...She was ready and she did it!! Has not smoked since June 22, 2012. People have to want to change and when that happens, it will happen.

QFT

Thank you for this!

Great post