WOW! Today was exhilarating! It started the same way it did yesterday. I got up and went running before I came to Starbucks. Now when I got up, I didn’t feel like running and I was still asleep. But once I my feet hit the pavement, it was well worth it. Yes my legs were hurting and there was a point during the run when I wanted to turn around and WALK back home. But I didn’t. I kept running until I got to the end. After I showered and got ready for work, I felt GREAT! It was like my mind was refreshed. I was able to think clearer and I had a lot of energy. When I got in my car to leave, I looked at my gas needle and it was on full; as I let the garage door down, I just looked to the sky and said thank you! I was happy about the little things that I had right then. To be able to exercise, take a shower, put on clothes, get in a car that’s full of gas and go to Starbucks (then to work)…I am one BLESSED individual. WHOOOOOOOOO!! That was me screaming from being excited.
As I was running I was thinking about what motivated me to just start working out again. I starting thinking and the only answer I came up with was self motivation. Sometimes you have to just be motivated from within. I have found that self motivation is the only motivation that last. When someone else motivates you to do something, it doesn’t last as long. There are some cases where it does, but for the most part, it doesn’t. What made me think about self motivation was a comment my aunt Patty made this past weekend. She was talking to a friend of hers about why she was motivated to lose weight. She said that she was tired of looking the way she did and she was tired of getting tired easily. When she said this, I looked at the expression on her face and you could see the drive in her eyes. She was determined and she did it. Even though I was self motivated to get out and run this morning, her expression when she made that statement, gave me the energy to keep running when my legs starting hurting.
Self motivation should be the jump start to get you going on anything. And let the outside motivation be the energy to keep you going through the hard times. Once you unleash that self motivation, you will be amazed at what you can do and how you feel. Right now, I have so much energy! Just think, you can feel the same way I do, but first you must release that self motivation beast from within……
“Get back to living life and stop letting life live you”-K.J Swint
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