Thanks for the pep talk :) I realize most of that, but it helps to hear it from someone else. I'll start by not half-assing at the gym and build from there. I like to see progress so I apply myself at the beginning and stop putting in the effort once I read an acceptably mediocre level.
Welcome. I hear you. It's something I have to go beyond as well. Your situation, from my limited perspective, sounds like settling on less than you really want for around the same reasons. It's how I stopped all the gym workouts I've ever started: work became tedious, boring while not providing any sort of visible results (in this situation read "not becoming finished as soon as it's most desirable"). The only thing that keeps me going through the current one is the fact that those are going into my uni PE mark; I'm sure I'd stop without it.I like to see progress so I apply myself at the beginning and stop putting in the effort once I read an acceptably mediocre level.