It’s easier to just not think about it.

That is a typical response when confronting any demon one might have.

It is easier to stay on one side of an issue and ignore any claims from the other side.

It is easier to get up in the morning and light that first cigarette, than it is to even consider life without them.

It is easier to post up on the couch and watch other people lead healthy, active lives than to incorporate those ideals in your own life.

Without some stimulus (not the Obama kind either), tomorrow is probably going to be a slight variation of today.  Procrastination is really mental inertia.  It is the momentum that is your habits that make up one’s typical daily life.

If today wasn’t what you want for yourself tomorrow, I suggest finding that external motivational force to nudge your status quo into something incrementally better.

Here’s my incremental improvement from 2 years ago or so.

I quit drinking regular soda because the math sucked.

one 20oz pepsi per day = 250 calories

Let’s say you burn off all the calories you eat in a day, except that one 20oz pepsi.

91,250 calories per year = 250 x 365

26 lb per year = 91,250 calories / 3500 calories per pound

I needed a lot of motivational forces to do 91250 calories worth of extra cardio.  So, I changed instead.