Habit and Consistency. You’ll be amazed at what that can do. The common troupe: Someone decides they want to get fit, so they go out and join a gym and start p

Habit and Consistency. You’ll be amazed at what that can do. The common troupe: Someone decides they want to get fit, so they go out and join a gym and start pushing themselves extra hard. One month later they’ve burned-out, got discouraged, and they give up thinking “I guess I’m not ‘one of those people’”. Nonsense: our bodies are built to move. Here’s what to do instead. Find one day/time every week and show up. Do the smallest amount of “work” possible and leave. Make “showing up” a “religion” but don’t work yourself to burn out. If you do this, the following things will happen: (1) something will feel out-of-place if you happen to miss a day, (2) you’ll start to appreciate this “special time for yourself”, (3) you’ll start to crave it and want to do more.. let yourself fo more then.. but.. don’t make yourself hate it. Also, read books on habit formation: Power of Habit, Atomic Habits, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big You can apply these tools to all kinds of other things too. They are extremely powerful. (I’m also a software developer who never exercised ever and was in terrible shape with back pain due to my sedimentary lifestyle. A year ago I made the change. Since I’ve dropped 70 lbs, run a 50k, and completed a triathlon)