Mumu Motivation

It’s August and I am deep into Mumu season

I need some motivation…

but…

it is summer

and…

I find most fitness motivation to be overly simplistic, dull, and easily dismissed.

It is a lot of shouting about pushing hard. Sweat as metaphor for life. Staying tough, being tough, getting tough. And my favorite of the worst: “being better”, better than what? I think we are pretty great already and what we could really use is some actual awareness of our awesome sauce and then a little spinkle of inspiration to keep us moving toward our own fit life. (not a bad run-on sentence, worth the breath?)

Also, these motivators are usually very skinny or super built white people, who have made a living of working out. That my friends, is a fitness career, not a fit life.

The very best fitness is the fitness you will, actually do, that brings you more alive and “ta-da”, that is what will motivate you as well.

I’ve been unmotivated for awhile now. My therapist calls it depression, but I don’t like the sounds of that, so I give myself a pat on the heart and dig for some Maggie motivation.

What do I need?

Authentic fitness motivation appears as inspiration, education, and compassion.

I am inspired by being with friends or out in nature, best yet, both.

I pulled out some of my favorite books to educate and inspire myself with everything from recipes and workouts to prayers and poems.

Then with some self-reflective journaling I got to experimenting.

What do I need today? A walk on the beach with a friend? A dance party for one? A farmers market trip for fresh salad fixings?

Then, I try it out, do I feel better? If the answer is yes, then, BINGO, motivation from within. Toward your best self.

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