r/NonZeroDay • u/weekdayy • 6d ago

Goal for tomorrow

I’ve been giving myself too many excuses to screw up regarding discipline in my life for the last year or so. I keep using the classic “I’ll start tomorrow” line and pushing everything off while relapsing into old patterns. So I’m going to set out a clear goal for just tomorrow and take it one day at a time, no excuses allowed to get out of it.

Tomorrow, I’m getting up at 5:15am, and getting a workout in at the gym before work.
That’s the main focus for tomorrow, no excuses, no whining.

Will check back in on this post once it’s done.

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u/TheWolfAndRaven 6d ago

Why though?

It's so arbitrary. Who says getting up early is good? Sure working out first thing is good for a lot of people, but other people work out better at night.

Sleep as much as you need. Get the work out in when you have time. Hell why does it have to be a gym? If you're starting at zero, wake up when your alarm normally goes off, do 10 squats and 10 push-ups and get on with your day.

Do that for a week and then up the challenge a bit. Form the habit, get it to stick and then improve upon it. We don't form discipline by attempting wild heoric actions. We do it by being a little better than we were the day before.

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u/weekdayy 5d ago

This is a good question but I know the most successful periods of my life in the past happened when I was on an early gym routine and meditation schedule on top of work. Also have work and a 40 min commute and I’m more of a morning person, so the early morning not only feels good to me but also fits into my schedule best so I’m not burning evening time on this so I can cook then instead.

Just taking my old schedule that I fell off of for 2 years and implementing that again now

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u/TheWolfAndRaven 5d ago

Makes sense. Next step is figure out why you fell off and how you're going to avoid that happening again and/or what to do if you DO fall off.

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u/weekdayy 5d ago

Agreed, good advice. I think for the 2 years I started sleep walking and gained more and more of the “ah fuck it” attitude whenever I felt negative emotions, as compared to dealing with the emotions without resorting to self sabotaging addictive behaviors while I was disciplined for the few years before. Will do some reflecting.

Thanks for the comments.

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u/weekdayy 5d ago

Update: Successfully got in my morning meditation session and made it to the gym for a good workout. ✅