01/06/2025
Stop negotiating with yourself.
Our alarms go off in the morning and instantly our brains begin to race, creating reasons as to why we shouldn’t get out of bed.
“It’s the weekend, I don’t need to wake up this early. I can get my exercise in later. After all, I have all day.”
We finish a long day at work and we tell ourselves we will better off skipping the gym this afternoon.
“I feel a little tired, it’s probably better I skip the gym this afternoon. I can just go tomorrow anyway.”
In the matter of seconds, we have an internal dialogue, creating excuses and justifying them in an attempt to make ourselves feel better.
How do I know this? Because I do it. We all do it.
However, some people are just much better at shutting down the conversation/ thoughts quickly before it takes control of their actions.
Others allow their inner voice and feelings to win frequently, leading to a lack of discipline and poor habits.
Like anything else, this is something that can be trained. The key is recognising when you are doing it and implementing the processes to mitigate this destructive behaviour.
Imagine organising to meet a friend for an early morning run and they cancel on you the morning of “because they decided to sleep in.”
You’d feel disrespected at the fact they didn’t care enough about you to show up for something as trivial as staying in bed.
So don’t do it to yourself.
Have some self-respect. Hold yourself accountable. It’s as simple as doing what you said you were going to do.
Promises made, promises kept 🤝.
