Think about something
you absolutely have to do every day. You might not particularly enjoy doing it,
but it's part of your routine such that, if you didn't do it, it would feel
completely wrong to have missed it.
For me, that thing is
brushing my teeth. I'd really rather proud of my dental hygiene and the
strength of my teeth. I don't have any filling and apart from a grumbling
wisdom tooth a few years ago, I've had not major issues with them. I feel very
lucky as I remember a friend who woke up one morning and her front tooth
dropped out. This would have been fine if she were 6 years old, but in her late
40's it was pretty shocking!
She couldn't go to work
that day as she had to go to the dentist to get a temporary tooth until the
dentist had made her a new one. That for me is the stuff of nightmares - I do
actually dream about losing my teeth and wake in the morning to find myself
checking that they are all there! I'm not saying that my friend didn't bother
to brush her teeth, sometime there are other influencers, but those kinds of
stories make me all the more dedicated to brushing my pearly whites at least
twice a day, and leaves me with a sense of guilt and worry if I do not.
So how does bushing
your teeth relate to exercise?
It's simple really.
When I embarked on an exercise routine I have (and continue to) admit that it
was probably one of the most difficult routines to stick to. It hurt, I was
hot, out of breath and I'd rather be at home watching Netflix. Or working even,
I'd actually rather work than exercise.
More than that I didn't
like and was somewhat resentful of the people who were heading there each day
as if they were off to church to pray to the sweat god. My mother even reminded
me that when I was younger I'd said that I'd never go because I didn't want to
breath in other people's sweat air!
You can see that I was
really not on board with the idea of the gym at all!
So how did I crack that
resistance? It was actually quite simple. I stopped trying to be one of those
people who loved it, I stopped being one of those people that hated it and
instead I thought about it as something that I just have to do regularly, like
brushing my teeth.
Sometimes I might be in
a rush and brushing my teeth could be seen as a time zapping activity, but I'd
never not do it. I just have to. Now when I think about staying at home of an
evening instead of going to the gym, I apply the same feeling as if I were
choosing not to brush my teeth. It feels wrong to make a decision where I am
avoiding doing something I know I have to do, more than that, I'd feel like I'd
let myself down if I didn't do it.
So what is the thing
you do in your life on a regular basis, that if you didn't do it, it would give
you that feeling of the day being a bit weird or disjointed? Tune into the
feeling you get when you think about not doing it and begin learning the
formula for what you feel. Later when you want to go to the gym (or want to
avoid it) tune back into the feeling as you thing about the gym and notice how
you feel compelled to get on and take some action. Now get to the gym!
Being able to take
useful emotions and apply them in different situations is just one of the
benefits of NLP.
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