Today, when you start your workout, be ready. Bring your whole focus to what you’re doing, like a tennis player behind the baseline, waiting for the next serve.

It’s a trick I learned from Patricia Moreno, the founder of the mind/body/spirit workout called IntenSati. And when you stop the chatter in your head — the “I’m too tired for this” and the “What, I have to do 20 of these?” or whatever’s going on in there — and bring everything you have to what you’re about to do, you just might do amazing things. Let me know how it goes.