The rewards of not listening to your inner voice

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We think we should listen to and follow our inner voice. But not always, or rather, in many situations this is not the best advice we can give.

Often we really shouldn't follow our inner voice. Anyone who trains, or does any kind of sport or activity in which there is a way to measure their times, or their marks, shouldn't listen to their inner voice at all.

We are designed not to confront our barriers or limits. We are designed so that protection, our own protection, is one of the most basic things we have to take care of.

Let's take an example. How many of us, when we wake up, think that getting out of bed to do something difficult must be the right thing to do? Rationally, we know that we're going to waste energy trying to accomplish something that we might not achieve. But if we look beyond that small premise... we can see the enormous advantages.

When we're training, for example, and if you do cardio on a regular basis, you realize that your body gets used to a certain type of load, cadence, repetitions, sets, and even rest intervals between periods of exercise.

Our inner voice screams at us not to do that last repetition while we're still struggling, so that instead of doing five exercises, we only do four... so that we don't increase the loads between sets, or so that we simply stay at home and watch that perfect set that we love so much...

By not listening to this seduction that our mind puts in front of us, we end up going beyond what we think is possible, or just what is necessary for us to do. Going beyond what we thought was our best, or the minimum effort needed to accomplish a certain task and putting another cross in the box.

One's will is not innate. We work on it. We need to be more deaf to our inner excuses. To what whispers to us that we don't need to get up so early, or that we can have more of that dessert. What asks us to be more self-indulgent is therefore a mechanism. It seeks only comfort, the minimum expenditure of resources with the greatest possible return. But it doesn't let us see beyond the wall it has just raised if we follow its request...

Let's learn not to listen to our inner voice every time. For our GOOD!

I hope that you like to read my daily reflection.

Cheers🍀

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