How Self-Help Has Created More Work For You
One of the longest journeys that I’ve taken in self-help has been to achieve a fit body. It all started as a serious consideration in 2014 when I took a Paleo diet and saw some results. After that month long attempt, I went off Paleo (ironically due to the fact the diet was expensive despite a feature of it being “budget friendly”) and started to go to the gym at my university with a friend.From that point on my attempts of going to the gym and exercising in general have been on and off. Although eating healthier has been on point.The issue isn’t for a lack of knowledge or specific roadblocks. Usually it’s some kind of life event that gets in the way that makes it more ideal for me to do something else rather than hit the gym. Be it a pandemic, budget, no one texting me to see if I’m going to the gym and other things like that.I don’t have the same accountability that I have for myself than I do for writing — something I’ve been able to do consistently and for longer than my “serious consideration” for becoming fit.In the 1980s, you had aerobics tapes. In the 90s, I remember seeing an advertisement called Body Break and that oh so familiar song. Today we have a wealth of information through various apps.But even though apps provide a wealth of information than we could ever need, the focus has shifted away from our bodies and instead make us obsess over data and how that correlates to ourselves. In essence, we’ve shifted from relying on our individual selves to know whether we’re feeling good to now an arbitrary third party mega corporation who made an app to affirm we are on the right track.
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