Starting to run is something that every one of us might have done. You got inspired or motivated to start running. Maybe it was an urge to bring about a positive change in our lives. Or, maybe it was the dreadful moment that threatened your health and forced you to take up running as a therapy.
So, we started to run. But, how far would we go? Would we be running after a week, a month or a year? Out of 100 people who would take up running, more than 50 would give up soon. Do you know why it happens?
The reason is that anything that we set out to do is met with initial resistance. This resistance is due to a lack of mental muscle. Mental Muscle is like your real muscle. The more weight you have lifted, the more it will be in a position to lift. This is a muscle that we need to grow over a period of time. It will take time to develop in us.
Initially, for a beginner, even small situatiocns will be tough for Crack. The initial phase of developing a regimen is going to be the slowest. Even the simplest of tasks like getting up in the morning is going to challenge you for long. Maybe for a day or two, you were able to get out of the bed at the crack of a dawn. This is because you had prepared yourself so well for the past 2 days. But, the amount of pain, you took to make it a possibility is going to weigh you down shortly.
Our kind is still not ready to take it that every day we have to get up and go for running. The mind will compare the new routine with the previous one and conclude that we were better off earlier. Because, the mind does not need to put efforts in the daily routine that we were following for Avery long time.
Most of the time we are looking for the best ways to do an act. We anakysr thing too much for too long. This is called analysis paralysis. Initially taking some action is more important than taking the best action.
Another reason is we expect too many things to happen too fast. And when we fall flat on our expectations, we get discouraged. This discouragement leafs to inaction seeing not the expected results.
Attach yourself. If you are a lone runner and you don’t have a companion to run with, not to worry, you have better things waiting for you. What you can do is find the ropes and tie yourself with them. Let me explain, when you go for run, find some thing that will bring you out every day to witness that thing. Like in my case, I would go out to absorb the natural beauty of the place. I would see the rising sun. I saw a Milan who would be coming from the other side. After seeing each other crossing, he became so friendly that he would smile at me and I would smile bakc at him. And if on any day, he did not turn up, my mind would wonder and think about him.
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