Extra accountability
Nov. 27th, 2010 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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exercise_every_dayHey, community!
There have been a handful of people recently looking for ways to be more inspired to exercise when they lose their willpower. It has probably happened to all of us over time. A day off becomes a lost week becomes several weeks in a row until we can hardly remember the last time we exercised.
One of the things we all know helps is "accountability." That's one of the reasons why we're all here, after all. It helps to know that someone else cares how you are doing, and it also helps to feel a little bit guilty about letting that person down.
For some of us, being accountable only to ourselves is enough, and logging in here is a way to substiantiate that accountability.
But is there anyone here who thinks they might like some kind of more personal relationship. Somebody who sends a personal message - "Hey, how's it going? I noticed you didn't log in yesterday?" Someone you can connect with and say, "What should I do today? I am so unmotivated!"
I have no idea what interest there might be in having special relationships like this. Maybe they could be three or four weeks long, so that they can develop benefit, but not be a life-long commitment to someone else's fitness traumas?
Thoughts? Interest? I'm going to screen the comments on this post (assuming I can do that) so that people can feel free to be as frank as they like in responding. Also, if you would like to express interest in possibly participating, you could do that, too.
There have been a handful of people recently looking for ways to be more inspired to exercise when they lose their willpower. It has probably happened to all of us over time. A day off becomes a lost week becomes several weeks in a row until we can hardly remember the last time we exercised.
One of the things we all know helps is "accountability." That's one of the reasons why we're all here, after all. It helps to know that someone else cares how you are doing, and it also helps to feel a little bit guilty about letting that person down.
For some of us, being accountable only to ourselves is enough, and logging in here is a way to substiantiate that accountability.
But is there anyone here who thinks they might like some kind of more personal relationship. Somebody who sends a personal message - "Hey, how's it going? I noticed you didn't log in yesterday?" Someone you can connect with and say, "What should I do today? I am so unmotivated!"
I have no idea what interest there might be in having special relationships like this. Maybe they could be three or four weeks long, so that they can develop benefit, but not be a life-long commitment to someone else's fitness traumas?
Thoughts? Interest? I'm going to screen the comments on this post (assuming I can do that) so that people can feel free to be as frank as they like in responding. Also, if you would like to express interest in possibly participating, you could do that, too.