Most people want to hit the gym, or hit the road, or just generally get in shape. But for some reason, it just seems so overwhelmingly hard. Not just the build-up to having to actually keep to your commitment, but working out itself! How is it that people can do something that just isn’t that motivating or that fun? Where does the energy come from? Especially when it just seems so attractive to just NOT move?
The truth is, is that it’s easy to be an athlete. You can make a huge transformation without a single push-up. By the end of it, you may even have a deep, strong urge to run, jump, lift, and skip. There’s an elixir. It’s a cheat code. It’s a life-hack. All you have to do to become an athlete without exercise is simple: eat like one!
It’s no lie – you are what you eat. Don’t move, just eat! If you regularly eat like someone who is hitting the gym and wants to put on muscle and become toned – then that’s who you’ll become. Not just in terms of the physique, but in terms of the energy levels and the general urge to hit the gym. Your willpower will increase to that of one who wants to get work done – because deep down that’s what we all want.
Many people these days are educated in terms of how unhealthy food impacts blood sugar levels (causing a huge spike and then a drop) which then causes fatigue and tiredness. What they may not know also, is how this drop in energy levels will increase likelihood of your general mood to swing towards anxiety (and increase the risk of depression), lower your willpower, cause brain fog and lower general productivity. If you’re an athlete, you’re productive. You have willpower and are positive – have strong aspirational goals and not afraid of failure. You jump into life with a desire to win.
It doesn’t have to be an athlete in terms of the race-track. It can be an athlete in the workplace – a salesperson that looks after himself will be able to work closer to his real potential than a salesperson who neglects himself. More energy means more focus. More energy means more work done with a better attitude. People who have more energy attract others – and that can only mean moving up. People look up to athletes because they invest in themselves.
In short, if you want to make hard things easy (or at least easier and more manageable for now) then eat like you’re about to run a marathon. You don’t fill up on ice cream before a marathon. Fill yourself up with the positive and you’ll be drawn towards the positive. Doing things that require energy won’t seem so scary if you just do a simple thing – GIVE YOURSELF THE ENERGY!
Gym of Self-Discipline 