I started doing the 30 day beach body challenge. My personality is such that I get excited easily and instead of long term view, I often start well but my motivation fades away. I normally use my friends to ecourage me and keep me going like a friendly competition but I didn´t manage to get anyone to start with me so I took the plunge with myself. Sure they encouraged me but a friendly competition has one aspect that general encouragement does not.
a) its regular motivation…general encouragement is same like my normal motivation..everyone encourages you at the beginning and then fades away and waits for the finish line… a competition will give you regular motivation all the way throught until finish.
b) the motivation that you get from competition as long as you are pretty friendly, you can see that both of you are struggling and its not just athelitic banter a person hears from boxers from example… it is more empathic and more encouraging then normal
Anyway i decided I need to be more independant..so I started … I faded last week after day 10 but this I will push my mental reset button and start from day 11 and continue…hopefully till the end… Like they say, the biggest competitor you have is yourself..and if your competition is better than you by a long margin that is also not good so I am going to compete with myself now.
