Can't progress

NightwingTRP · 2015-10-23T15:25:31+00:00

Yeah, it's called being human. If we allow ourselves, we will be lazy... because that is what is naturally best for us - conserving energy when there is nothing important to do like getting out there to hunt for food when we're hungry. Humans are naturally lazy.

You've got to motivate yourself in the way that works for you. Some people imagine the consequences of failure. Others remind themselves that previous efforts are a waste of time if you don't remain consistent (that one tends to work for me.) Some will imagine the benefits and some will think about a big picture "if I do X today, it's the latest step on my journey to achieving said benefit." Others have found getting friends to share a journey of improvement prevents them from being lazy because it gives the idea of an obligation to their friend to turn up to the gym etc.

Do some research on methods of motivation and find what works best for you, then remain consistent. It's natural to want to be lazy, but that's not a good enough reason to be lazy. It's just a natural road block that you must overcome through force of will. Motivating yourself well will help this.

Thesegates · 2015-10-23T18:12:46+00:00

It's simple. You're lacking motivation. How about the days/times that you feel this way, you ask yourself some questions?

Here's a list of questions to ask yourself, please feel free to change the context for other events in your life or you can lie down on the ground and cry about how unfair it is to feel lazy:

Am I a little bitch? Or am I a strong mother fucker who won't surrender to laziness? I'm a strong mother fucker, I am not my thoughts. I am in control of this vessel. My brain leads it, and I don't want to be a little bitch; even though sometimes my mind tells me to be one.

Why in the fuck am I doing the things I am doing? Oh, that's right because I want to be jacked, healthy, smart, and have my pick of the litter when it comes to sexy woman.

Do I really want to read this stupid book? Yes, as a matter of a fact I do, because I do not want to be an ignorant fuck who walks around the world barely able to tell my ass from my elbow. I do not want to enter into debates with my friends and seem stupid. I do not want to live a life of poverty. I like expensive cars and fast woman.

I LIKE FEELING ACCOMPLISHED AND SOMETIMES I NEED TO PUSH MYSELF BEYOND MY LIMITS OF COMFORT.

zo34 · 2015-10-23T18:40:58+00:00

If we were to get all spiritual I would say that you ought to treat the powerful resistance as an external force that is holding you back. There is no saying where it originates, save for the fact that it isn't yours to begin with.

Treat it like it isn't coming from you, tell yourself "fuck that noise", and carry on. Come back in a week and we'll talk again.

Apexk9 · 2015-10-23T18:42:13+00:00

Its simple.

You have no Discipline.

If you don't do it no one else will.

alpha_n3rd · 2015-10-23T18:50:26+00:00

I don't understand how you could feel that way about lifting unless you've never really lifted and felt it's effects. I'm lazy as fuck but I lift like a madman because it makes me feel so awesome. It's like a drug.

GunsGermsAndSteel · 2015-10-23T19:07:53+00:00

I just came from the gym a few minutes ago. I didn't wanna go in and work out today, just wasn't feeling it. So I told myself, "you haven't missed a workout in almost six months. You know damn well you're not missing this one. You can sit in the car and complain to yourself about not wanting to work out, or you can just fucking get it over with."

Marched into the gym, no fucking around, knocked out a solid workout- not setting any personal records, but did some respectable lifting- and then got the fuck out.

Did I want to? Not particularly. I wanted to go home and eat potato chips on the couch while watching Netflix and then probably jacking off. But I fucking did it. And in terms of muscle growth, it will not ultimately matter if I wanted the workout or dreaded it. I will still gain muscle either way, because I obeyed my biological need to be strong.

ShounenEgo · 2015-10-23T19:50:34+00:00

There was a thread by illimitable man yesterday called "how to be happy".

Go read that.

Playsz · 2015-10-23T23:06:51+00:00

To me, life just isn't worth living if lazy.

lazzatron · 2015-10-23T23:48:00+00:00

stop being a pussy.

Title	Can't progress
Author	Charl1e1
Upvotes	8
Comments	9
Date	October 23, 2015 3:10 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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