One more minute

Life has a strange sequence or order that we've absolutely no control over it. Very interesting.

"If I set my goals only one minute at a time, I could go longer before I reached exhaustion."

This appeared in a bestseller novel but it left no impression at all when I read it. I was more concerned whether the heroine is able to have her revenge. This is not one of those lines that make me paused and wondered.

But, this morning at the gym, this line comes alive, leaves it mark and becomes a powerful inspiration for me to spend one more minute...just one more minute...and one more minute on that machine. I've managed to manipulate my thinking. Question is have I been deceiving my brain all along... have I been telling myself to bear with one more minute of crap...one more minute...one more minute???