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I had taken "painful" to be intended metaphorically, and meaning only "I don't want to", but some of the comments below are suggesting otherwise. So can I check what you are actually saying: is exercise literally painful for you, in the same sense as a stubbed toe or a bad tooth are painful?
Yes, I meant literally painful.
Before a rather helpful suggestion in this forum, my original plan for a routine was to start with 1 each of a selected set of exercises: jumping jacks, toe-touches, push-ups, etc; then add 1 to each every day, with a goal of 30. (After doing some further reading, I added left-, right-, and front-planks.) Push-ups were my major obstacle - by the time I was doing twenty-odd, the first ten were easy, the next five or six slightly painful, and by the last few my arms were shaking and the muscles /quite/ painful.
Today's magic number was 26 - and instead of doing them all in a row, I did the push-ups in groups of 6,5,5,5,5, with enough of a break in between to let the ache go down to easily-manageable levels. Since this confirms yesterday's first trial that this change makes things mind-bogglingly less hurty, I'm going to try breaking out my new wrist-weights tomorrow, even though I'm not yet at my initially-set goal of 30.
(Yes, I started this thread hoping to learn ways to simply keep myself motivated to accept the pain instead of trying to reduce it. I really am only an /aspiring/ rationalist, it seems, but I'm willing to work with all the lessons involved. :) )
The funny thing about that sentence is that pain generally becomes stronger when you "try to reduce it" and weaker when you accept it being there.
That sound like a goal that might fit into the beeminder format. I don't know if the chance of losing money motivates you, but it is at least a possibility.