How to Stop Lying to Ourselves: A Call for Self-Awareness

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

We often lie to ourselves about the progress we are making on important goals.
For example:
  • If we want to lose weight, we might claim that we're eating healthy, but in reality our eating habits haven't changed very much.
  • If we want to be more creative, we might say that we're trying to write more, but in reality we aren't holding ourselves to a rigid publishing schedule.
  • If we want to learn a new language, we might say that we have been consistent with our practice even though we skipped last night to watch television.
We use lukewarm phrases like, “I'm doing well with the time I have available.” Or, “I've been trying really hard recently.” Rarely do these statements include any type of hard measurement. They are usually just soft excuses that make us feel better about having a goal that we haven't made much real progress toward. (I know because I've been guilty of saying many of these things myself.)
Why do these little lies matter?
Because they are preventing us from self-awareness. Emotions and feelings are important and they have a place, but when we use feel-good statements to track our progress in life, we end up lying to ourselves about what we're actually doing.
When the stethoscope came along it provided a tool for physicians to get an independent diagnosis of what was going on inside the patient. We can also use tools to get a independent diagnosis of what is going on inside our own lives.
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Tools for Improving Self-Awareness

If you're serious about getting better at something, then one of the first steps is to know—in black-and-white terms—where you stand. You need self-awareness before you can achieve self-improvement.

Hacking the Workout Journal: How to Track Your Workouts in the Simplest, Most Effective Way Possible


In my opinion, tracking your workouts (whether it be with a workout journal, a fitness app, or something else) should accomplish three goals…
  1. Your workout tracker should be quick and easy, so that you can spend your time exercising. Your time should be spent doing the work, not recording it.
  2. Your workout tracker should be useful. Our modern world is overflowing with data and most of it is never acted upon. I prefer a system that records the essential information of what I have done (so I can see my progress), that reduces errors while I am working out (so that I can be more effective with my time), and that helps me make informed decisions about what to do during my next workout.
  3. Your workout tracker should be versatile. I don't want to have to find a new app or develop a new system every time I want to do a different style of workout. I should be able to adapt my current system to any style of training.
With those goals in mind, here's the workout journal tracking system that has worked best for me.

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