Have you ever slacked at an important healthy routine that you care about?
Humans will say “Yes!” to this question, only robots and charlatans will pretend they are always on track. You know what happens. First you slack, then you feel guilty about slacking and say “I need to get back to that,” but you don’t because the longer you slack the less energy you have to do the thing.
For me, it was regular jogging. I was in decent shape, but I have seriously slacked on that goal. So what are we to do about it? The solution is simple. Just restart!
Like, do it today. Or tomorrow is fine, but if you put it off another day then you should reread the part about doing it today.
And let’s be honest, restarting is going to suck at first. I went for a jog today for the first time in weeks and it was awful. My Fitbit decided to exclusively focus on just telling the time, dropping its other projects of monitoring my heart rate and tracking my workout time. Spotify didn’t like my playlist of motivational pop, so halfway through the jog it just stopped playing any music. My jog to walk ratio was just sad.
It sucked. But afterwards, I felt better. I feel more energy in me and I look forward to doing it again. That is how it works. You just need to restart. It will suck, and then it will feed you energy to get fully back on track.
At some point I will slack again. You will slack again. Let’s celebrate that! We celebrate it with full acceptance because it means two things:
1) We can always RESTART again.
2) It means we are actually not a robot.
So breath easily knowing you are real and don’t let the slack get you down.