I am sure everyone has that one particular thing that they absolutely hate doing but once they do it, they feel AMAZING. If you are sitting here reading this and thinking to yourself, "She is wrong, totally wrong. I do not dread anything," well, you are wrong because I promise you, you do. For example, you could dread getting up early every single day to go to work but once you get there, you love it and it makes you feel accomplished. Or, you could dread something as little as making your bed in the morning but I know everyone who has a clean bed feels better about themselves the rest of the day. Well, mine is similar to those but has a little meaning of why I dread it.
My whole life I have been super active. I have danced my whole life along with working out and running on the side. I was always so confident in my body and did not mind working out in front of people. Well, when I stopped dancing when I went away to college I slowly lost my love of working out. I let myself go and I eventually stopped working out altogether. When I say I lost my love of working out what I really mean is I lost the love for myself and was too embarrassed to work out in front of other people. I knew I had to get back in shape but I would absolutely HATE getting up and actually going to the gym. The thought of it made me just want to crawl into my bed forever. I would always tell myself, "there is always tomorrow," which everyone knows with that mindset tomorrow never actually comes.
The days that I would actually get my lazy self up and make it to the gym, I would feel amazing. I would finish my workout and feel so good about myself! But the struggle to go the next day was the same as the day before, dreadful. I just always had the mindset that I would rather just stay at home by myself than go to the gym where everyone was watching me workout. I felt like I would get judged. But the days I did go and did the workout I literally lost all negative thoughts the moment I stepped into the gym. It was like I was a whole new person. I knew that I was in there to better myself and if people were judging me then they were not good people anyways.
Lately, I have pushed myself beyond anything I have ever done and I have tried to go to the gym regularly so that I had a routine. I still dread going to the gym and being in front of other people, but I feel better about it every single day. My point of me telling you this is if you are dreading something that you know will end up being a positive thing for you, then keep doing it until you eventually realize that you were silly for ever thinking it was a bad thing. Get up, do the things that scare you, live your life, make your bed, go to the gym, and get up early to do the things you love! I promise you, you will not regret it!
