Inner swine get out!

"There is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late." Well, I must contradict my favorite author, Oscar Wilde, on this one. Absolute strangers turn to me every day. Today we're going to grab the apparently most urgent topic by the scruff of his neck - the inner swine, our weaker self. He's like a uninvited roommate who pays no rent. But before you continue to read you need a pair of scissors, the pocket of your favorite trainings shorts and a decent amount of elation. I'll wait for you...

Now, cut out this column (after you've finished reading...) and put it in the pocket of your sport pants. I'm going to accompany you the next few times you train and keep your inner swine at bay and thus all excuses for you not to train - as there are none. "I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words." i.e. stop cribbing about it and move your behind!" Part of the inner swine's deception tactics is to produce all sorts of creative excuses. If you are to believe all he says, you put ourselves at the mercy of your own sabotage. He doesn't want changes, he's unfathomably lazy and he wants everything to remain the same. Let's send that inertia into exile! Should he for some reason re-appear, just take out these words and get your act together! You're going to train now, got it? Big Sister is watching you...

Finished your training? Did you notice something? The elation comes all by itself. "Everything becomes a pleasure if one does it often enough! The harmony of soul and body - how much that is!" Oh, how right Oscar was.