So I recently wrote that I was thinking about motivation and how people change.  Tonight, I was at the gym (not a normal occurrence mind you) and someone was working with a personal trainer.  She’d just started to tell him that she felt like she’d gotten a full workout in since she had to survey a Top 10 college football stadium that day, meaning walking up and down all of the steps.  The trainers not really listening and makes a comment about how she’s had a break long enough and to get back to it.

It pissed me off.  I had been thinking about trying the personal trainer but someone bullying me into exercising is so UN-motivating for me, and I now know not to waste the money.  I’d rather have a gym buddy that can say “Take a rest if you need, but don’t lose the momentum.”

I was actually even more irked when, a few minutes later, he mentions his shift is done in 15 minutes and he hollers out to a buddy across the gym.  So you not only pay, it’s not really very sincere or heartfelt, at least in this situation.

But then I am reminded of The Labyrinth (David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly in Jim Henson movie) where Jennifer’s character looks up and says “You have no power over me.”  I love that line.  And it reminds me that motivated or not, it’s all up to me.