“If it’s important to you, you’ll make it a priority.. If it’s not, you’ll make excuses”

This quote came to my mind as my coworker was lamenting one day about how difficult it is to find the motivation to exercise.  But later on I realized it is not so much whether getting healthy is a priority or not.  Of course why would one not treat it as priority?  Duh!!  The real issue here is we are creatures of habit.  We don’t like pushing ourselves out of our comfort zone, even though we know the change sometimes is in our best interests.

If it’s in our best interest, why do we resist learning a good habit?  My theory is that as much as we are motivated to cultivate a good habit, we are still attached to current habits.  Learning a new habit is hard.  Unlearning an old habit is harder.
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