My Strongest Muscle

Couldn't decide where to put this. I know there is a forum dedicated to Motivation & Support, and there is always Success Stories, but this forum is the busiest and I hope that people will enjoy reading this.

TL&DR: Willpower is my strongest muscle

My willpower is my strongest and most powerful muscle, and I exercise it every day.

It was not always as strong as it is now. When I began, my willpower muscle was small and weak from a lifetime of disuse. Exercising it made it sore and tired, and there were lots of days where I just wanted to stop using it, just for a little while. But I knew that the more that I used the muscle, the stronger it would get. Especially at the beginning, when the newb gains from using a muscle are so great. That is an important time to push the willpower muscle, to teach it how you want it to work for your body and mind.

In the beginning, my willpower muscle was invisible. It was hidden somewhere on my body underneath a layer of body fat. It’s hard to get motivated to exercise something that is invisible, because it takes a long time to uncover it, and it’s still a work in progress. Sometimes I would look in the mirror and feel discouraged that I still couldn’t see my willpower muscle. But I just kept exercising it, day after day. Because one day I knew that I could look in the mirror and see it looking back at me.

Some days my willpower muscle was just too tired and genuinely needed a break. That’s ok sometimes, to give a muscle a rest. All muscles need rest days to function at their best, even the willpower muscle. Sometimes the rest days are planned, and sometimes they just happen. The important thing is that we don’t rest our muscles forever. Muscles stay strong when they only have a day or two of rest, and then we get right back to exercising them, as strong and as hard as we did before.

Nowadays when I look in the mirror, I can finally see some of my willpower muscle. I see it now in my strong arms, in my more shapely calves, in my more defined waist. I feel it when I can pick up heavy things, and when I can run for miles without being winded. I can feel and see my willpower muscle everywhere. In fact, it’s the strongest thing that I see now when I look in the mirror – my willpower muscle.

So, I keep using it, because a muscle that I stop using will become weak and atrophied. So I will have to exercise my willpower muscle forever, because even as we get stronger and stronger, our muscles still need our attention. Even the willpower muscle. If we stop exercising it, it will become hidden and invisible again, like it used to be. The willpower muscle can’t be neglected just because we’ve seen it shine through after lots of use.

I hope that you, too, can find the strength to exercise your willpower muscle. And I hope that I can continue to exercise mine, forever.