Getting the Ball Rolling.

Here is the dirty little secret of fat loss (and athletic success, incidentally):

Nobody likes doing it.

That’s right – those fitness models with perfect 6-pack abs? They still say to themselves, “I’d rather have a waffle” every time they get up in the morning, open up yet another package of cottage cheese and sprinkle on exactly 3 oz of blueberries.

I’m sure David Beckham is pretty damn tired of doing his sprint intervals.

The truth is, it’s not any easier to for the best in the world to bring themselves do what it is you’re doing, and there are days where even they feel like throwing in the towel and indulging.

But they don’t. Unless they’ve planned it (but that’s a topic for another post).

Now, the corollary to that truth is this:

What’s hard is not the doing. What’s hard is the pre-doing.

It’s not eating the poached egg or lifting the weight or trying to throw that 200 pound guy with yoko tomoe nage, it’s that little voice inside your head telling you “I can’t do this” before you’ve even tried.

There’s a really easy way to shut that voice down. Just start doing it. You’ll find that 99.7% of the time, it won’t be so bad.

The other 0.3% of the time? You get a pass.