I am clinically insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or I was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, according to the quote often attributed to Albert Einstein anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do I mean? What quote?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That quote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I\u2019m pretty sure a psychiatrist or someone qualified will probably tell me that is NOT the definition of insanity!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And someone else will probably argue whether Albert Einstein even said that at all!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great. Both valid points, I\u2019m sure. And both completely irrelevant here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I HAVE been doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if that doesn\u2019t make me insane, it definitely makes me very stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or maybe a little stupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or maybe stuck in a relentless self-defeating pattern and drunk on denial?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Waking up and planning to work out LATER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I just really need to do this work first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And there\u2019s also that project I need to finish today that\u2019s due next century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I really need to call this person today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But then I really need to wash the plates right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I haven\u2019t done my laundry yet and my favourite sock is super smelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it\u2019s my turn to make dinner tonight, and I don\u2019t want my wife to kill me<\/s> be upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I don\u2019t have time because I still need to watch 67 cat videos on Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the latest episode of Reacher just came out and if I don\u2019t watch it tonight, I will die from social anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But \u2018insert whatever excuse\u2019 always comes up to get in the way of you working out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sound familiar?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You wake up 100% determined to work out today and then the day just runs away from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suddenly it\u2019s bedtime and you have no idea what happened???!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the same thing happens again tomorrow. And the day after that. And the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until 3 weeks have passed and you haven\u2019t worked out at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And your gym kit is crying like a kid that\u2019s dropped their ice cream, secretly praying you don\u2019t want a divorce. But it wasn\u2019t your fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I used to be like this as well. Clinically insane. Well, apparently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m not anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What happened? I decided to \u201cEat That Frog\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eat a frog? Not literally. That\u2019s not really my thing. But metaphorically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do the one thing you regularly avoid, or end up not doing, first thing in the morning before your brain realises what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n