You probably think really fit people are highly motivated, and that you’re too lazy.

Well, I can almost guarantee that I’m lazier than you are… but I train most days.

I’m not “motivated”, I’m just lazy on the right time horizon.

I’ve done well-validated psychometric testing that puts me in the 6th percentile for a personality trait called conscientiousness - which is how psychologists quantify how orderly, disciplined and industrious a person is.

In a randomly selected room of 100 people, 94 of them will feel a higher innate drive to run around doing things and being productive than I do.

Thing is - I’m really GOOD at being lazy.

I’ve noticed my day-to-day life becomes much harder if I get too weak or too aerobically out of shape.

So I train a lot, because it makes almost everything else about my life easier!

I’m not adding extra difficulty, I’m removing it. And I’m doing it very purposefully, because I’m fricking lazy.

I don’t have the damned energy to fight with my snooze button every morning, I want it to feel easy to wake up.

I’ve no interest in huffing and puffing up flights of stairs, I like to effortlessly hop up them two at a time.

I don’t want to use a bunch of discipline and self-control to avoid eating too many donuts, I’d rather just rely on feeling good from working out to reduce my snack cravings.

And I certainly don’t have any interest in managing long-term chronic diseases when I could dramatically reduce my risk by keeping my waist circumference, blood pressure and blood lipids in the low-risk zones. The alternative is clearly much more work.

Living life out of shape is MUCH HARDER than exercise.

I’m not some laudable paragon who pursues hard things because of exceptional moral character…I’m after an easy life, and spending 1.78% of my week training hard is the best way to make the other 98.22% cost me less effort.

So stop trying to become more motivated.

Use your laziness productively instead.