The Balance Between Doing and Not Doing Something
If you do what you said you would do when you were motivated when you DONT want to do it?
You will go far
I am one of the hardest working lazy fuckers I know
I will work escsescsively and obsessively to never have to do something I don’t want to again
However
Age is catching up slightly and am having I said I would do two lots of my stretching daily
Today I:
– did not want to
– couldn’t be arsed
– has more fun things to do
But here I am contorting myself into ridiculous shapes for a man of my beefiness because I said I would
It is not comfortable or enjoyable or what I would like to be doing in the slightest
But here we are
Current me thinks this sucks a bag of dicks
Future me will be grateful
Le sigh lol
It’s very easy to have grand plans, lofty goals, massive transformative ideas and so forth and it’s pretty easy to work towards them when your motivation is high
But when you don’t want to do it forever reason and then you FORCE yourself to do it in spite of how you feel
That’s when the magic happens
And it’s a lot like strengthening a muscle, you progressively get stronger and the load you can tolerate gets heavier; what was previously a challenge and miserable becomes easy and light
Doing what you said you would do when you don’t want to do it will change your life
By all means have fun, rest, enjoy life…
…but I find ‘earning’ it by doing what I don’t want to do gives me quite a glorious ROI but physically, financially and mentally
Little food for thought for the weekend…