By Carol Rogers


Whether joining the local gym, or pumping iron from the comfort of their homes, all experienced fitness enthusiasts know that gym training need not be physically draining. Endorphin high, anyone? No, really. With the right attitude, a well rounded diet, and realistic expectations, within a few months even the laziest couch potato would think twice before missing a beginners yoga Orange County CA session not when their newly-visible abs are at stake.

Without rapidly made improvements to their physiques, most people are quick to throw in the towel and call it a day. Yet, the opposite also stands true: should they manage to achieve the body of their dreams, and in record time too, they're just as likely to quit at that point as the person in the first example who had not managed to make any real progress.

Because whether they have reached their ideals or not, the reason most people fall short of the finish line, settling for less, and can't seem to keep that fire burning under their donkeys, can be summed up in one word: habit. It takes about two weeks some say three in order to gain or lose a habit.

Most people's motivations are like the wind: it merely comes and goes, blowing to and fro. And being more captivated by outside appearances than their inner-drives, gladiators-in-training are prone to dropping the gauntlet at the first sign of opposition. They had not endured their trial by fire yet, reflexively pulling back from the flame before they even had the chance to touch it.

Moments later, and in vivid detail, they'd be able to tell you all about the flame and how it felt. Because, in their mind's eye, they were able to see the flame and even imagine how it would feel. And to such an extent that they could feel it burning them before they have even come within inches of it. Individual conditioned themselves to place the pain before the gain. And since the pain was given higher priority in their minds, they were unable to see beyond it to actually achieve the gains to be made from the exercise.

The simple solution would have been for them to have placed more emphasis on the vision of how they would have benefitted from subjecting themselves to the fire, rather than focusing on the fire itself. Simply put, burning feels bad; but coming out on the other side of the experience, feels good.

In order to rewire a brain, all that's required is its willingness to try something, anything. As long as whatever is being attempted is done consistently, and over a period of three weeks brainwashing's virtually assured. And why? Because the brain loves habit; it thrives on routine. For example, after several workout sessions of leaving the gym and feeling like superman, the brain comes to accept this as the naturally expected outcome of exercising.

And with recent studies confirming that nearly 50% of people's daily activities are being motivated purely by habit i. E. People spend nearly half waking-lives operating on autopilot, it's hardly far-fetched to conclude that whatever they decide to spend the next couple weeks doing could have a lasting impact on the course of the rest of their lives.




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