I’ve found that I am more consistent with exercise and enjoy it more when I have a buddy doing it, too. I have also found that the buddy system works for pretty much everything else in life. Anything that requires accountability or some teamwork goes so much better with at lease one friend who’s doing it with you. And you each get the benefit!
Sometimes you’ll be on the same page and really tearing it up together, and sometimes there will be some back and forth between you. Sometimes one or more of you will need encouragement and the other(s) will be the encourager, and sometimes it might be the other way around. But because you are doing it together, it makes it easier for each of you. Whether it’s physical discipline or spiritual discipline, it helps to have and to be a buddy. (Reminds me of Ecclesiastes 4:9-12.)
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Better Than You
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Benefit and Consistent Work