31 July 2013
While I was picked up my relatives from the airport, my dad was discussing with them the need for personal trainers when doing stretching and exercises. So the good thing about having a trainer would be that the trainer can give you the right exercises to do, with the correct intensity and frequency. Also, you pay money for this service so you are less likely to quit or cheat. They will also motivate you to do better.
If you ask me, there is no need to hire a personal trainer. One should understand that the trainer is not doing the exercise for you. Any achievements made, any personal bests that are bested, are all of your own effort. No one can make you do it except yourself. If you could already inherently do it, why should any motivation be external? Whatever aspirations you have, let yourself be the sole motivator and driving force to achieve that goal. Another individual cheering you on will not help if you yourself cannot believe in yourself.
Stop relying on others. Others do not help.
Only you can help yourself.
Believe in yourself, and just do it. Yourself.
08 July 2013
From Rusticus I received the impression that my character required
improvement and discipline; and from him I learned not to be led astray
to sophistic emulation, nor to writing on speculative matters, nor to delivering
little hortatory orations, nor to showing myself off as a man who practises
much discipline, or does benevolent acts in order to make a display; and
to abstain from rhetoric, and poetry, and fine writing; and not to walk
about in the house in my outdoor dress, nor to do other things of the kind;
and to write my letters with simplicity, like the letter which Rusticus
wrote from Sinuessa to my mother; and with respect to those who have offended
me by words, or done me wrong, to be easily disposed to be pacified and
reconciled, as soon as they have shown a readiness to be reconciled; and
to read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding
of a book; nor hastily to give my assent to those who talk overmuch; and
I am indebted to him for being acquainted with the discourses of Epictetus,
which he communicated to me out of his own collection.
- Chapter 1 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
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31 July 2013
While I was picked up my relatives from the airport, my dad was discussing with them the need for personal trainers when doing stretching and exercises. So the good thing about having a trainer would be that the trainer can give you the right exercises to do, with the correct intensity and frequency. Also, you pay money for this service so you are less likely to quit or cheat. They will also motivate you to do better.
If you ask me, there is no need to hire a personal trainer. One should understand that the trainer is not doing the exercise for you. Any achievements made, any personal bests that are bested, are all of your own effort. No one can make you do it except yourself. If you could already inherently do it, why should any motivation be external? Whatever aspirations you have, let yourself be the sole motivator and driving force to achieve that goal. Another individual cheering you on will not help if you yourself cannot believe in yourself.
Stop relying on others. Others do not help.
Only you can help yourself.
Believe in yourself, and just do it. Yourself.
08 July 2013
From Rusticus I received the impression that my character required
improvement and discipline; and from him I learned not to be led astray
to sophistic emulation, nor to writing on speculative matters, nor to delivering
little hortatory orations, nor to showing myself off as a man who practises
much discipline, or does benevolent acts in order to make a display; and
to abstain from rhetoric, and poetry, and fine writing; and not to walk
about in the house in my outdoor dress, nor to do other things of the kind;
and to write my letters with simplicity, like the letter which Rusticus
wrote from Sinuessa to my mother; and with respect to those who have offended
me by words, or done me wrong, to be easily disposed to be pacified and
reconciled, as soon as they have shown a readiness to be reconciled; and
to read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding
of a book; nor hastily to give my assent to those who talk overmuch; and
I am indebted to him for being acquainted with the discourses of Epictetus,
which he communicated to me out of his own collection.
- Chapter 1 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
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