There’s really nothing wrong with my physical therapy exercises. They’re a bit inconvenient. None are painful. Some are boring. Most involve effort I just don’t want to expend. Still, even when I have nothing else pressing to do, for some reason I try to avoid PT. I’m sure there’s some great psychological reason for this, but I’ll ignore it for now. The point is, I suck at doing my exercises.
I stopped doing my exercises a few months ago when I was feeling especially fatigued. I know this was legitimate, but it still meant that 
I suffered a backslide and I now have to make up for it. I am attending PT again, and am supposed to do my exercises at home. I decided that for me, the best motivation was to track it. I might feel a little bad if I thought I’d missed a day or two recently, but I’d feel really guilty if I knew I’d missed 2 days out of the last 4. So I went online and printed out a little calendar. I bought some start stickers and I give myself a star every day that I do my exercises. This is working great! I felt much more guilt today than I normally would, since I knew I’d missed Friday, so I did the exercises at 9pm. Normally I’d have decided it was too late to bother by that point, but I did them!
I should have started tracking a few weeks ago, but better late than never, right? So in the last 9 days of tracking, I’ve done my exercises 8 times! 2 of those times were at the physical therapist’s office with her, but still, I did the exercises 8 out of 9 days!!
This may not seem huge to some people, but I’m guessing many others understand. I’m going to do my best to keep it up, because I know these exercises really will help. It’s time to aim for the stars!
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