Back to our regularly scheduled programming....
Exercise tip #3. You have to do it even when you don't feel like it.
I rarely feel like exercising, even going to kickboxing. Given a choice, I can always find a great excuse to skip it.
But I use those microsteps ("I'll just get into my uniform") and say I'll get in the car at the appropriate time. I drive there, I walk in, sign in and get in line. I fight down a few moments of panic--"I can't do this!"
And then the instructor starts, and the music pops in, and we're off. For the next hour, I don't have much time to think.
It's a full hour of hard work--strength work, balance work, speed work, power work. Punching, kicking, dodging, blocking, striking. (Sorta sounds like the 5 D's of dodgeball, doesn't it?)
And at the end of the hour, I am always--ALWAYS--glad I came.
The same with my art. Especially the last year or so, as I take my work to the next level, it's been hard to sit down to work. My head plays every mental game it can, and I've got a million excuses why I should work on something else.
So I do the microsteps and say "I'm just going to pick out border fabric" or "I'm just going to mix some clay".
Before I know it, the time has flown by. Some pretty good work has been accomplished. And I'm feeling pretty good.
If you wait til you feel like it, you'll never do it.
Just go to the studio. Don't worry about how you'll manage it tomorrow, or whether you have to do it the rest of your life. Just worry about today.
Just do it.
