Apr 25 2009
an motivational poster I have clearly overthought
At my gym, they have a large number of motivational posters on the walls. These are usually just general reaching your goal type posters and they also rotate them every few months/weeks (I am unclear on the system) so you aren’t staring at the same ones all the time.
There was one poster, however, that very specifically dealt with weight loss. It said something to the effect of (mind you, this poster hasn’t been up in like a year so I am totally making this up so it will be terrible): “You could be at home sitting on the couch right now but instead you are here working out. You are awesome.” I don’t think it specifically said you were awesome but the couch bit was totally there. Either way, you get the idea. The poster praised you for working out instead of sitting on your butt.
I’m kinda bummed that one got the boot a few rotations ago because I really liked it. Every time I saw it, and they had it right along the wall so you would see it as you were working out, I would say to myself, hell yeah, I am awesome for working out instead of sitting on my butt right now. Then when I was home sitting on my butt and I would debate going to the gym I would say to myself, heck yeah I am going to the gym because I am too awesome to be sitting on the couch like those other slackers.
It was a good motivational poster. It motivated me. I would have let it keep its job if I was the boss of poster rotation. Sadly I am not and I think they threw it out or something.
Either way, that poster is often on my mind in other ways throughout my life and today is one of those days. It is a Friday night. I had a long work week, I played video games all night, my husband is asleep. I could be asleep too.
But I’m not going to bed yet. Instead I am going to work on my book. I could be asleep right now but instead I am working on my book and that makes me awesome.
Heck yeah it does!
Hillary is an award winning playwright, fiction and non-fiction author best known for her play, The Love of Three Oranges which has been performed around the world. A Script Frenzy and NaNoWriMo ML, she loves connecting with other writers no matter what their experience levels. For the business side of blogging, publishing and selling, visit Hillary at The Whine Seller. See a complete list of Hillary’s blogs and books here.
