Finding Your Why
The gurus cant answer these questions for you even with all the fitness porn in the world.
How-to’s are a dime a dozen and the elements of good health are not rocket science.
Move your body. Eat nutrient rich foods. Prioritize sleep. Repeat.
Ten words give you the idea, the topography at least.
Yet, there are ten thousand books telling you how to exercise or what to eat and one hundred thousand blog posts doing the same thing.
The author tells you what he does, suggests that’s the best way, or even insists it.
Knowledge matters, we need to know what to do, but it is not the thing that keeps us coming back day after week after month after year.
The things that keep us coming back are less about how and more about why.
And just as there are too many words promoting how, there are not enough provoking why.
So I ask you, what is your why?
What inspires you?
What makes you leap out of bed in the morning?
(Or what would make you, if you are not leaping now?)
Answering these types of questions can help you get to a place where you are motivated to get healthy and stay healthy or to get and stay anything else really.
And they are precisely the things to explore if all the How-To’s are not getting you there.
The gurus cant answer these questions for you even with all the fitness porn in the world.
You must answer them for yourself.
Good writing as usual. In my case i am a 50 years ald man, my why is reduced to growth into an independent senior, i want to be able to live my finals years with dignity, So i try to be mindful as posible of food and exercise.
regards.
Nice Phil. The Japanese have the word “Ikigai“ which I translate (loosely) to “what makes life work living”
Why not have a Why?