I'm not sure if it counts as motivation, but I hang my exercise clothes (shoes, socks, underthings, even the scarf I wear over my hair) over the back of my chair every night so they are the first things I see in the morning.

I get up, exercise, take a shower and then start my day.

If I do it any other way I find I don't exercise at all. In the beginning I went to bed in my exercise clothes so all I had to do in the morning was roll out of bed, put on my shoes, put on a scarf or hat and go.

I force myself to exercise, I don't enjoy it at all, but I view it the same as taking all my vitamins and meds in the morning. Sometimes I stare at the pile of pills in my hand and just thinking about swallowing them all exhausts me, but I do it anyway.

Hey Muse - I tend to go through phases of being really fit (summer) to roughing it off and not lifting a finger (winter). For me, the absolute hardest part after a period of sloth is actually doing that very first run - once you get that out of the way somehow I just get back into the routine, I just need to break that cycle!

Just go for it!

Zx