Overcoming The Dread of Exercise
Article Round-Up: 2.25.24
Enjoy this week’s curated list of articles, podcasts, and more from the web to help you live a healthier, happier life.
Published This Week:
5 Lessons In Leadership From Open Water Diving
Takeaway: A year ago I got my scuba diving certification out in San Diego. What I thought would be a fun little adventure (and something to do while visiting my brother and his family) turned into a masterclass on leadership.
Those five leadership lessons include:
1. Know your team’s skills and trust them.
2. Your team’s safety is your responsibility.
3. Make sure everyone has and agrees on the important information.
4. As the leader, it’s your responsibility to be aware of the small, important details the team might miss.
5. When sh*t hits the fan, everyone is looking at you. If you can’t keep it together, neither will they.
Click the link above to read the full account of my experience which may or may not include a shark scare.
Takeaway: “Money can’t buy happiness is something only rich people say.”
Money can certainly solve a lot of problems.
One can’t even begin to consider the depths of happiness until they’re financially stable.
The way you think about money matters. It can heavily influence your ability to make and keep enough to be comfortable.
To this list of money thoughts I’ll add this:
It’s easy to resent those who have more money, especially if you’re unhappy with your financial standing. I caution against this.
You’ll grow to resent anyone who has more money—including yourself. This mentality will subconsciously prevent you from finding, creating, or taking opportunities that could change your life.
Just For Fun:
Menu Trends That Are Defining Dining
Takeaway: Like the bad flavor of Redbull or the “close door” button having no function in elevators, who would have thought they put so much thought into menu design?
Apparently it’s big business, and the landscape is changing to be more quirky and fun.
Reader Question:
I feel angst whenever I think about doing a workout. It feels like no matter how hard I work nothing changes, and that makes me dread wanting to do them. How do I not hate exercise?
This is a question I got while speaking with a member on a coaching call. She was explaining to me how she was feeling about her workouts. She would feel dreadful at the thought of having to do them.
As we discussed it, we realized it was (at least partially) because she had placed such a high expectation on what she expected to get out of every single workout.
She was trying to change her body, and so she expected every workout was going to give her immediate results.
Consider this analogy:
Imagine you have a friend with whom you hang out all the time. You go out to eat, you get cocktails. You generally enjoy each others company.
You do this for days, weeks, months, even years. Then one day, your friend forgets their wallet and they ask you for $20.
You're likely to give them the $20. You don’t even give it a second thought. You trust that they'll pay you back in some fashion later on.
Now imagine that friend asked you for $20 every time you hung out.
That would get a little annoying. You wouldn't really like that friend as much. You wouldn't want to hang out as often. This is ultimately what this woman was doing every time she worked out.
She was feeling angsty because every time she worked out it was like asking the workout for $20 because she wanted the immediate results. That led to a lot of dread when she didn't get the things she was expecting.
Something to keep in mind:
Workouts are a long-term play. Having a long-term friend that, in the end is going to take care of you, but you have to commit to that relationship.
You have to commit little by little to that relationship for it to give you what you want.
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