Morning Musings: June 1
You usually wouldn’t be able to tell by my exercise routine when anything disruptive to my life is going on. I think we all do this (make sure it happens) for whatever is important to us – our work, our […]
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You usually wouldn’t be able to tell by my exercise routine when anything disruptive to my life is going on. I think we all do this (make sure it happens) for whatever is important to us – our work, our […]
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I generate a certain kind of protective bubble around my exercise when I go to great lengths to maintain the schedule. Only I can figure this out about myself or do this for myself. I am the one who creates […]
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So, I have the “Just do 20 minutes rule”. I am allowed to bail after 20 minutes if I haven’t caught a second wind, but I can’t decide to bail before I give it a shot. For one thing, I […]
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Act like you plan to do it. I can move myself along any behavior continuum by acting like I really intend to do whatever – eat right, exercise, etc. I can bring my workout clothes with me. I can keep […]
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An object in motion stays in motion. An object at rest stays at rest. This is a basic rule of physics – and exercise. Want the energy to exercise? Then, exercise. One doesn’t arrive at the momentum to exercise from […]
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Exercising on the morning of a really long workday is how I have the energy to get through the long workday. This is especially true if I can’t get enough sleep the night before one of those 15-hour days (you […]
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A friend of mine said that he finally stated attending AA meetings regularly (and is now celebrating 13 years of hard won sobriety) when a well-intentioned friend suggested to him that he schedule his life around his meetings rather than […]
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I usually don’t schedule my exercise into a time that I absolutely know I will want to be relaxing – like at the end of my often long days. When I get home, I know I like to be done […]
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When I am particularly busy it helps me to get myself to exaercise if I can multitask It. Some of my clients walk to do errands. I often listen to work related conference calls that I download onto my ipod, […]
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Often, the thing I put my exercise off for (and of course I never get the exercise in at all that day once I “delay” it) are things that I usually could do some other time. They are things I […]
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