Battling The Excuses
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It's not too hard finding an excuse when we don't want to do something. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about the excuses he has to battle when motivation feels elusive.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's 10 minute walk is helping you stay fitness consistent, so let's go for a walk. |
| 0:07.0 | I want to read to you a comment left by Carolyn. This was a comment to one of the walking |
| 0:15.5 | is fitness YouTube videos. Carolyn writes, love your videos. I've only seen three so far, but YouTube keeps bringing |
| 0:25.0 | them to me in the feed, and I'm glad it does. I've been trying to just get out and walk, |
| 0:32.8 | but I think of all the excuses not to. |
| 0:43.3 | Mostly it's just laziness and uncertainty about what time of day I should go. |
| 0:48.2 | I hope I can get past that and just do it, as they say. |
| 0:56.0 | And I hope Carolyn has been able to get past it and just do it, as they say. Got me thinking, though, about the excuses, the excuses that we tell ourselves. |
| 1:04.0 | And there are probably some common excuses, but even in the commonalities of those excuses, there's a nuance that's going to be |
| 1:15.4 | unique for each one of us because we're unique people. And so we're going to tailor that |
| 1:22.5 | excuse perfectly to our personality and to our situation. |
| 1:28.3 | Because really, when you think about it, an excuse is simply an argument that we're making to ourselves |
| 1:34.3 | to not do the thing we don't want to do. |
| 1:37.3 | And so if we make an excuse that is nonsensical to us, then it's not going to work. And so for me, today, the excuse that I could |
| 1:51.4 | have used, it probably would have had the most impact was, I woke up earlier than I wanted to. |
| 1:58.7 | I didn't get as much sleep as I had hoped to get. And I don't want to use up all my |
| 2:08.3 | energy first thing to go for a walk because I'm going to feel tired later. And I need to conserve my energy and therefore I'm not going to go for a walk. |
| 2:21.5 | That would have been an excuse that would have had more chance at actually working |
| 2:26.4 | because what we're trying to do is get ourselves to say, oh, you're right. Yeah, you're right. |
| 2:32.5 | I shouldn't take the walk. I can't take the walk. |
| 2:37.1 | And then it's an airplane taking off. I'm near the Myrtle Beach International Airport. |
| 2:44.2 | And then if you're wired as I can be, this isn't my dominant personality trait, but I got a part of this kind of running through who I am, |
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