Discipline does not exist and you cannot motivate another human being. Might surprise you to hear a personal trainer say these things but it’s true. One is either motivated to perform a task or not motivated. I’ll even go another step further and introduce the idea that it might be your hormones that are in control of everything: The way you eat, the way you move, the things that you enjoy, everything.
And therein lies the key to sidestepping the issue of discipline: Things that you enjoy.
What do you enjoy? Do that. Do it now because things are never going to be better than this.
If you do something that you enjoy and want to get better at the work becomes pleasant.
Getting really good at something may require that you have to do some things that you don’t particularly like. Rachmaninoff probably had to play scales before he could write Concerto No. 2. He may have found joy in the repetition, I don’t know. I imagine that doing the work from and inspired place would make such day-to-day tasking much easier to deal with.
I’m not quite sure why I get such a charge out of form and movement. Why, everything disappears when I get a lift just right. The world stops and all there is is the sequence of muscles firing. And the weight goes up. To me it’s perfection. Inspiration. Beatitude.
Inspiration comes to everyone differently. people are proficient at different things and yet we have a propensity towards calling that person’s discipline into question if they don’t/can’t exercise.
There’s a difference between exercise and training. Training is designed to make you better at something; exercise just makes you tired. Exercise sucks. Who really wants to do it? Maybe Rachmaninoff. He was really good.
I just want to say thank you for reading this! I’d love to have you come in. We can talk about your favorite late-Romantic, classical pieces while we devise a way to make you better at the things you love to do.
The Trainer
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