How to duplicate wins
Dr. K makes an interesting point of how to duplicate your wins during an interview with Pirate Software. Here is the clip.
1. Consider your options and write them down. Have options.
How do I want to exercise? Go to the gym, follow a YouTube yoga tutorial or jog for 10 minutes outside my house?
2. Predict the end results. Walk through the process of reaching that end result in your mind.
I think I am going to follow a YouTube yoga tutorial today. It is really hot outside and I really do not feel like moving a whole lot. I am going to pull out my yoga mat and lay it on the floor; place my laptop on the side and click open a yoga playlist.
Your predictions may not be what ends up happening. But what ends up happening does not matter. What matters is whether it happens. Exercising through jogging and exercising by going to the gym is the same thing. You get your physical body moving, which is the actual point.
3. Reflect for 5-10 minutes afterwards.
How was my prediction? How was the exercise? Do I want to do this again in the future?
Try it out. These work for me. Repeat what works for you.