Setting a schedule for yourself seems simple, but it puts your decision-making on autopilot by giving your goals a time and a place to live. It makes it more likely that you will follow through regardless of your motivation levels.

1. Make the start easy: You shouldn’t need motivation to start your pre–game routine;
2. While your routine should be as easy as possible to start, it should gradually transition into more and more physical movement;
3. You need to follow the same pattern every single time: Eventually...

Newton’s First Law applied to habit formation: Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. 

We experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of our current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.

• Consider every thought you have as a suggestion, not an order. And none of these suggestions are orders. They are merely options;
• Maintain perspective: Your discomfort is temporary;
• You will never regret good work once it is done.

Motivation is often the result of action, not the cause of it. Getting started, even in very small ways, is a form of active inspiration that naturally produces momentum.