Motivation Part 2 CHURCH OF SWEAT: ONLINE PERSONAL TRAINING & FITNESS TORONTO
“It always seems impossible, until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela In the last post we went through a couple of common perspectives, or perspective-shapers that can hamper motivation. Ways that we can get in the way of ourselves and the free flow of life through us. Thomas Moore defined neurosis in just that way: anything that gets in the way, or hampers the free flow of life. So in a sense, we tackled some common neurotic tendencies.
"If I can't succeed, I won't try." Last on this list, and the subject of this post is an insidious one. A very common issue when it comes to motivation is simply believing you can’t do it or that you can’t do it well. So, chances are that if what you are thinking of doing is new to you, you will not do it well. And you may not do it well for a while.
Spiritual principles in action. Here’s the thing: and this is where some deep-ass spiritual work comes in. It’s easy to just say I can’t or it’s too hard and just choose to sit it out. It is. Especially these days with so much phones and TV’s, the numbing options are endless. We can always distract ourselves with something that contents us in the moment while slowly eroding the fabric of our heart.
“Follow your bliss”. Wayne Muller once said "we're only given the right to do the right thing, not make the right thing happen." The right thing in this case is following the path that spreads out before us when we call to mind what we feel devotion towards. Our job is to follow that path. Period.
1 On 1 Queer Personal Trainers Toronto Joseph Campbell, who spent his life devoted to the study of myth, believed that this was one of the highest spiritual teachings that he found all across the globe, throughout all of history. “Follow your bliss” was how he phrased it. And he found the idea everywhere.
Will we be successful at it? Will we be successful at it? Arguably we are successful as soon as we take our first step. And on every subsequent step. That is success. In a world that would bully you out of every dream you may have while grinding you to dust on the wheel of late stage capitalism, success is seeing that luminous path in front of you, having the courage and wherewithal to step onto it and continuing one step in front of the other.
Best Queer Personal Trainer Toronto We don’t have to be successful. Success in this day in age, in this part of the world is measured in the most banal and narrow terms. Fuck it. We don’t have to participate in that. But to miss out on the bliss. That is a shame worthy of being named a cardinal sin.
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