Have you ever watched a highlight video that makes you hunger to improve? A minute into the video you're telling yourself you're going to overhaul your entire workout strategy. Two minutes in your planning to workout 4 days a week and throw 7 days a week. After the third-minute, you're setting your alarm for 5 am so that you can hit it hard. You know the first morning will be brutal, but if you can make it three mornings it will become a habit.
5 a.m. the next morning, the alarm goes off, you hit it and go right back to bed. You can workout after work, it will be fine. 5 p.m. rolls around, it's time. You just hop in your car and go home, the mo is gone.
Workout buddies surely get the job done. When Ray was around I never missed a workout. We put together 2.5 good years of training. But what happened when Ray wasn't around? I haven't put together three consistent weeks of workouts since 2012.
Motivational speeches? Try following "Coach Quotes" on twitter, read through some tweets at lunch, at the end of the day try to recall them. How'd it go?
The internally motivated man can climb to the top of the mountain, spend a year training in absolute isolation, and climb down more powerful than could ever be imagined. I always fantasized that I was a member of this group. It gave me a sense of superiority, it made me feel good about myself. Plucked from my community and given an "isolation tank", I am forced to acknowledge that I am an externally motivated individual.
For those of us who are externally motivated, we live and die with our community. Our community defines our top three priorities. Pull us out of our community and our top three will experience a total overhaul.
If the game falls out of your top three, you disrespect the game. If you disrespect the game, the game disrespects you. The frisbee gods are a wrathful and hateful group, they have no patience for being disrespected.
Do you think it is impossible to coach intrinsic motivation?
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