Why distraction and motivation paralysis are killing our health goals

  • Why distraction and motivation paralysis are killing our health goals

    We all aspire to live full lives and have our health for the duration and indeed
    we should be able to achieve this. It is, in fact, well within our capability to
    realise this goal. Health motivation is the driving force behind this ambition. As
    the saying goes: ‘We want to die young as late as possible’. We want to be able
    bodied long into our twilight years. Some might harbour dreams of running
    that marathon, lifting the heavy weights, walking the Camino, even attempt a
    triathlon. The well-worn ‘couch to 5K’ indeed has proved to be a huge success
    of late thanks to social media with the hashtag #couchto5k on Instagram
    having more than half a million posts to attest to this.