Improve Your Motivation to Workout Part 4
Budgeting Your Motivation
Make sure you’ve checked out Parts 1, 2, and 3 before you read this one.
Imagine that your motivation is money. The different disciplines in your life are countries with different currencies, so that your motivation is stronger in some domains, and weaker in others. Some people start with more or less money than you do, and their money may be stronger in different currencies compared to yours.
We often hope to overcome issues of fitness motivation by hoping we’ll have more of it next time. Just as hoping to win the lottery is not a good way to manage your finances, this is not a good way to maintain your motivation to workout when you’re preparing to take on a new challenge.
Continuing with this analogy, part 2 of this blog was about making sure we aren’t borrowing money from a sketchy source that will punish us with interest at a later date. Part 3 was about making sure we don’t associate our money with our self-worth or future prospects. This part will be focussed on budgeting your money.
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