I just came back from the gym, and although I wouldn’t say it was my greatest workout ever, the fact that I even went up to the gym has to count for something, right? I’ve realised that the less I think about something while I do it, the more motivated I am to finish. In work, life, workouts(!) as soon as I start thinking about what I’m doing, if I’m doing it right, these thoughts start slowing me down and I either give up or just don’t finish what I started.

I suppose these thoughts are ‘negative’ thoughts, although they are not negative in nature, the outcome becomes the opposite of what I’m hoping for. It will go like this:

I’ll start my workout, hop on my cardio machine of choice, and I start feeling good….

But then:

Oh I hate this song (flips thru ipod slowing pace down a bit) okay, good song. Okay, doing good. But I had that cookie today. So what’s the point of even working out. It was a good cookie, but still, I just want another cookie. NO NO Focus!! Focus on working out. What time is it? Another shit song. OMG so thirsty, okay, would it matter if I cut my time down by 5 minutes, I mean, it’s not going to make a difference anyway?

As you can imagine, I don’t come out of these types of workouts satisfied.

Today was a bit different. I worked out for 30 minutes, didn’t play with my ipod, watched some tv while I did it and 30 minutes flew by. I even wanted to go some more but I knew I had tons of other stuff to do that day. Again, not overly satisfied but you know what I did?

I just threw all my negative thoughts out of my head, showered and went on with my day.

xoxo

Fab Brunette

ps. Do you have negative thoughts? We all do – what do yours stop you from doing?