Comment by thenerdhead

I have personally found that other individuals who happen to go to the gym at the same time as me to be my “accountability partners”.

While you build the discipline when doing anything enough, I think the better conceptual model for building that discipline is B. J. Fogg’s model.

His model is B=MAP.

Behavior = Motivation X Ability X Prompt.

You can have little motivation but high ability and go to the gym. You can also do the opposite. So long as there is a prompt of some sort.

Using the idea that motivation is transient, that’s where much of James Clear work in focusing on the systems comes into play. To make the ability and prompt easy, visible, etc.

A personal trainer is much of that combined into one.