You may be surprised at how flexible and programmable your own preferences are.

You can, for example, learn to love exercise.

Even if you don’t like it now.

Even if you hate it.

There are all kinds of behavioral tricks you can try. Things like rewarding yourself after a workout, doing something to psych yourself up, or having a responsible partner.

All of those, and more, are helpful.

You know best how you operate. Maybe penalizing yourself with a donation to a cause you hate works for you. Maybe it will make you dig in your heels.

I’ll leave it to you to figure all that out.

But if all that seems more complicated than it’s worth…

And you really want to learn to like it, not keep tricking yourself into doing it…

…that’s where these approaches come in.

You can modify your own preferences so you don’t have to criticize yourself. You really enjoy it.

I know, because I love working out now. After decades of struggling, and trying very hard, to stick to a routine, I now crave it.

Once a week used to be a burden. Now, I like to exercise three times a day if I have time.

And you can do the same for yourself, with a little hypnotic work. Here are three general strategies: The details, which will be personal to you, are for you to fill in.

The first approach is to identify the cause of the resistance and change it.

Do you hate exercising because of the pain? Rework your mind so you get a runner’s high instead.

Does it make you feel out of shape, uncoordinated and uninspired? Train your brain to take pride in your progress, not your performance.

The second approach is to reconfigure your associations.

If the idea of ​​exercising makes your stomach feel heavy, turn it over so it fills your body with light.

Instead of feeling tired before you start, find out how you can get uplifted.

The third approach?

Set your intention, go into a very deep trance and let your unconscious figure it out.

You may not even know what the problem was.

Or how did you fix it?

Only suddenly it’s so much easier to put on your workout gear and hit the gym.

That’s the weirdest way to do it. And, in a way, it is the most difficult, because it requires an immense trust towards your own unconscious.

And a deep relationship there.

That is not something natural, it requires work.

Once you get there, though?

It can be as simple as thinking what (or who) you want to be…

So you wake up like this.