| Literally just by showing up. People have a distorted view of exercise, thinking that every work out, every gym session has to be intense but in fact the most important thing is to do something. Have a gym membership? Just show up and walk on the treadmill for half n hour and go home. Don’t have a gym membership? Go for a walk around the block. All that is exercise. The magic happens when the repetitive act of showing up starts compounding in unexpected ways. You feel the benefit so going the next time is less effort, and you may walk a bit longer. That in turn affects the choices you make about what you eat, when you go to sleep, the quality of you’re sleep, the increase in dopamine from all those activities, which then feeds back into the cycle. So literally the easiest thing you can do is do something, don’t expect overnight results because that kind of expectation informs the perceived effort (which is high), which results in people doing nothing. |