And that is labelling ourselves.
For example, for me, I’m an early morning person. I am, I work best in the morning.
I’m not disputing that.
But I need be careful here.
I catch myself saying:
“I’m not an afternoon person”
“I’m not an evening person”
“I can never workout well in the evening”
“I’m tired in the afternoon”
“I get that afternoon slump”
And by saying these things, I live up to it.
And then I often don’t try stuff.
Now, in the last month or so, I’ve done workouts in the evening,
And I’ve actually had some of the best workouts, yet I previously would often not do it because I’d say
“ if I don’t get it done in the morning, it doesn’t get done”
^^ Then I’ll live up to that.
I doesn’t get done because I said it wouldn’t get done.
Now, considering how versatile we need to be, because life is changeable and change is scary enough.
People hate change, but if change is inevitable, plans going a bit off plan is also inevitable.
Think how useful this skill could be to getting the results you want by sticking to something for long enough to see the results that you want?
It could just be the key skill to be able to say
“I’m not an early riser, but I’m gonna do an early morning workout”
How do you know you’re not an early morning riser and you couldn’t do the workout if you’ve never tried it?
Or not tried enough times?
Because a month from now, if you keep challenging yourself in that area, who knows, it might just get a little bit easier.
(We know from research around hunger and breakfast that the more you eat breakfast the hungrier you get in the mornings. Think when you’ve been on holiday and you wake up used to your big breakfast, starving hungry)
I’ve proved to myself I can do a decent workout in the afternoon and evening. But before I might just label myself as someone who ”doesn’t workout in the evenings”
Which simply adds obstacles to my life.
Just a thought for today.
That might just help you think differently about this health and fitness stuff
Matt “More than just an early bird” Fruci