Motivation

Motivation comes after action.
-Zig Ziglar

Often, we hear people give excuses, I planned to exercise the whole week, but now I'm too hungry, I guess I'll start after my dinner. After dinner, I'm too full to run, I'll rest a bit. While resting, it started raining, and that spoils my plan totally. I really planned to run. I guess I'll do it tomorrow. And tomorrow never comes.

The problem isn't that you're too hungry full or if it's raining or if there's a fire next block. The primary reason is a lack of motivation. Motivation, however does not come easy. There will be no motivation, before some action is taken. During a run, The starting part is the hardest, with the continuing part becoming more pleasurable and easier. Wanting to run does not cause your body to release endorphins, which make your run less painful. It's only after you started running do your body start releasing these pain-killers.

As there is momentum to a moving object, things get easier while they are moving and the starting is really the hardest, called inertia. So never complain when it's difficult to start, that someone should motivate you. No one is able to. You have to get started before you'll feel some sense of motivation.

You don't pay the price for success, you pay for the price of failure.
-Zig Ziglar

That is indeed true. You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the fruit of success, but you pay the price of failure, if you fail to attain your goal. When you want to have a healthy lifestyle and you embrace a plan to work towards it, you don't pay the price and pain of having to run everyday. You enjoy days without feeling ill and increased alertness and productivity. When you fail to keep fit, you pay the price of suffering from illness.

There is a reason why people always fail to attain their goal. They believe that nothing in the world is free. In order to get something, you have to give up something, which is thus the reason why you pay the price. In that kind of minimalist thinking, there is not enough for everybody, everyone has to fight for their small share of the prize. That is not true. Think big. Think abundance. Instead of fighting where you think is limited, why not seek out "Blue Oceans" places, where no competition is, and make your own share as you define it. Just for example, money is not limited. However, people tend to think of it as limited and hence the thinking that I have only so many ways to go about earning it. In an event I'm tight for cash, and I have no other way out, there would only be these many ways to get money; robbing someone of their earning or other deprivation methods to get money from others. Why not think about creating your own share?

Know the company The Body Shop? Founded by Anita Rodrick, it was only an attempt by a mum trying to earn money to support her child to go to school. Had she see it as a minimalist, for her t o have money, someone must lose it, would we get to enjoy the fragrant shower foam made purely of natural materials?