Where the good idea doesn’t look so good?

Last Friday I had departed for the local pub for a quick catch up with some friends. One thing led to another and by 23:30 I realised that I had not completed my sit ups for the day (all 400 of them).

Everyone said that it was silly and a bad idea to do them, ‘why not tomorrow?’, what difference will it make? etc., etc… Instead I decided that I had to do it. Not because of the sit ups, but because it was too easy to capitulate and go with the flow.

It is quite hard to do sit-ups in the pub when people are shouting and pouring beer on you. But I did it and have not yet missed a day… 384 days to go!

For me this was a totally logical thing to do.  Not be persuaded by others to give up on your goals, but it was close.  These were some of the hardest sit-ups I have ever had to do.