A reason for why you don’t like to exercise.

In her book, “The gift of failure” Jessica Lahey writes,

“Before third grade, when scores and percentages did not matter, I wrote freely and honestly about what made me happy. But then foreign numbers began appearing on my papers, numbers representing other people’s approval or disdain. At forst those numbers were inconvenient little shapes that hindered my ability to write without care. But soon, I began to rely on those numbers…
I started to drift away from what I had been writing as a younger child. Before I realized it, I was writing for those little, crawling black shapes and red marks”

Does any of this sound familiar to you?

I ask this, because we tend to blame ourselves for begin ‘unmotivated’ to workout. In doing so, it doesn’t invite us to get curious about WHY or HOW it got to be this way.

What SHIFTED for you when it became about ‘a look’ or about numbers? or maybe that’s how it’s always been? These are curious questions that are different for us all. I hope that by asking yourself these questions, you can start to develop some compassion for ‘why’ and ‘how’ it got to be this way.