An Exercise Plan Is Won Or Lost In The Minute Before You Begin

The Evening The Sofa Wins Again

Most new exercise plans start with real enthusiasm. There’s the new membership or the new running shoes, a plan for five sessions a week and a first week that goes better than expected, with every session done and a little soreness worn like a badge.

Then one evening the planned time comes round and the sofa looks very comfortable. It’s been a long day, the legs still ache from yesterday and a voice says “I’ll do it later” or “I’m too tired today”. Later turns into tomorrow, tomorrow turns into Monday, and by the following week the plan has quietly stopped.

The lesson most people take from it is that they lack motivation, so they wait for it to come back, perhaps with a new year, a new app or a new photo on the fridge.

(If the sofa isn’t where it shows up for you, the same pattern sits behind the alarm switched off before a morning walk, the gym bag that stays in the car and the plan that starts again every Monday.)

“I now give you permission to release the old idea that exercise has to be hard or unpleasant. Exercise is a gift you give your body, and your body thanks you for it.”

Steve knows how motivation can come and go. Early in his career, he says, “my motivation would come and go without warning”, and later things got much harder, with $80,000 of credit card debt and an eviction that left him living out of his office. How he turned that around is further down this page.

Waiting to feel motivated sounds reasonable, because motivation looks like the thing that gets people moving. Very often it works the other way round. Motivation tends to arrive after you begin, once the shoes are on and the first few minutes are under way, and the good feeling afterwards is what makes the next session easier to start.

So someone who waits for the feeling can wait a long time. The planned time arrives, the feeling isn’t there yet, and “I’ll do it later” wins, because nothing has happened yet that could bring the feeling on.

Waiting feels sensible, and it’s hard to give up, because it looks exactly like listening to your body. But after a few skipped sessions, starting again can feel like a much bigger step than it really is, and the wait gets longer.

Call it the Motivation Wait. It catches a great many people, so it says very little about laziness or character. What’s missing is a way of starting that doesn’t depend on the mood of the moment, and building that in is the job this track was designed for.

From $80,000 In Debt And Living Out Of His Office To Self-Made Multimillionaire

Steve lost his mother at an early age and grew up with his father, who battled alcohol abuse.

Later in life he went through a lot of career detours and failed business ventures, and he soon found himself $80,000 in credit card debt. Financial institutions and collection agencies were beating down on his door. He held on as long as he could, until he was evicted from his own place and had to live out of his office, which he was about to lose as well.

Think about what getting up for work looks like when the office is also where you live, and you know it’s about to go too. That was where things turned for Steve. He discovered a way to reprogram his mind to attract everything he needed, and to put systems in place that got his life back on track.

He used a combination of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques and a specific framework for happiness and success, and from it he developed the Dream Life Mastery program for getting the results he wanted.

Today he’s a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist and a self-made multimillionaire who manages 22 training certification programs in hypnosis and NLP.

Feel Motivated to Exercise starts where Steve’s own turnaround started, in the mind, and applies it to the few minutes between “later” and lacing up your shoes.

One of Steve’s students wrote this about his work in general:

“have actually taken real steps towards its realization”

My appreciation for your work and the positive impact it’s made on my life is far more than I’m able to describe here. However, I’ve been inspired to live out my dreams and have actually taken real steps towards its realization in the past few months. Your Fan, Student & Friend.

Steve Has Practiced Hypnotherapy And NLP Since The 1980s

Dr. Steve G. Jones is a licensed Clinical Hypnotherapist and self-made multimillionaire who developed the Dream Life Mastery Program to help other people reach their goals and make incredible breakthroughs in their own lives.

• Life and business coach to top Hollywood directors, sports stars and CEOs.
• President of the American Alliance of Hypnotists and of the American Union of NLP.
• Member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the National Guild of Hypnotists, and an associate member of the American Psychological Association.
• Four degrees: a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Florida (1994), an M.Ed. from Armstrong Atlantic State University (2007), and an Ed.S. (2009) and Ed.D. (2013) from Georgia Southern University.

“Over the years, I’ve worked with many clients one on one. Many of whom have gone on to achieve phenomenal success.”

“I’ve Already Tried Apps, Plans And Gym Memberships”

Plenty of people have. They’ve bought the membership, downloaded the app, followed the plan and promised themselves that this time would be different, and many of them did really well for a couple of weeks.

Those tools are good at telling you what to do and when. What they can’t reach is what happens in your head when the planned time comes round and the sofa looks comfortable, and that moment is where so many plans stop.

Feel Motivated to Exercise works on that moment directly. Keep the app or the membership if you like them, and let the track look after the minute when “later” starts talking.

How Much Planned Exercise Never Happens In A Year?

These numbers only count the sessions you plan and then skip, so leave everything else about your week as it is.

Every one of those sessions was meant to happen, and somewhere between the plan and the shoes, “later” won.

Change the numbers until they look like your week. Shoes-On Starting is aimed at exactly that gap.

Six Things Feel Motivated to Exercise Rehearses With You

Every one of them is on the track, and together they answer all five faults.

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