Changing Habits

I've been feeling low on energy lately, feeling tired without even doing anything. Maybe it's simply because of my habits; after all, it has been a long time since I did any form of exercise. Ever since I stopped training to try to join the police, I've been completely sedentary, and it's time to change this. I have to be honest, I never really enjoyed exercising, but I had a big goal as a motivation, which was joining the police. However, that's not my goal anymore, so I've lost the motivation I had. I gave up because after being rejected for the third time in a row, I felt very disappointed. At least, though, I didn't fail because of my physical condition; I failed the psychological test, just like last time.

Maybe I'll try again in the future, but as of today, I want to focus on other things. Either way, I should have kept training because now I've become sedentary, and I wasn't like that before. For that reason, I decided to change my habits, not for any professional goals, but for myself and my own health. I'm going to try to wake up earlier every day and exercise more often. I'm even considering joining a gym because if I have to pay for something with my hard-earned money, I'll make sure to make it worth it; this becomes another motivation.

The hard part isn't starting; the real challenge is to keep going once I begin. It's very difficult to acquire new habits and very difficult to break old ones. And here's something most people don't realize: you can't have one thing without the other, because you have to make trade-offs. The day won't get any longer; it will still have 24 hours, so you have to make time for your new habit by stopping something else. In my case, what I'm doing for most of the day is playing on the computer. I believe there's nothing wrong with playing games, but it's been taking up a lot of my time recently, and I could use some of that time to work out. Life can't be only entertainment; we need to be productive at least half of the time, and not only in our workplace but in our personal lives as well.

It takes an incredible amount of discipline to change our habits, but it's a necessary thing to do every now and then when we realize that we are straying from our path.