One of the biggest struggles that I and many others go through is the notion of the never ending story. That is the feeling that your life is constantly being Tivo-ed and played over and over again with no lasting force pulling you in any different direction.
The most interesting notion of this dilemma lies in the fact that you know that something (or many things) in your life needs to change, but you are so un-blissfully content with your current circumstances that it becomes nearly impossible to motivate yourself to shake things up.
So what is one to do? Do you continue on your path to mediocrity and accept defeat from the jaws of life? Or do you develop a laundry list of life action items and proceed to disassemble nearly every aspect of your life in an effort to make changes for the better?
The answer is both.
You and I both know that changes need to be made in life in order to get more of the things you want out of it, even if that means picking up a few bad habits from the past. On the same token however, taking your life and sending it hurdling down a canyon with only a t-shirt left salvageable is likely not a keen course of action.
The beauty is that you can have your cake and eat it too in regards to this life dilemma.
I started out by figuring out the list of things going on in my life that should not change no matter what choices I make that will send my life into a tailspin. From daily exercising to eating right and spending time reading and writing, I know that if those things take a backseat, my life will likely go up in flames long before I send it off a gulch.
Convexly, the same exercise needs to be taken in regards to things in your life that you are doing that you know are not conducive to turning up the volume on your life to 11. Things like playing hours of video games, watching too much TV, aimlessly reading web articles about teenage celebrities that you know that no one should give a shit about.
After the usual suspects are lined up, begin to reinforce the good and strike down the bad.
This is a twofold exercise, by in which as each worthless activity is sent to the chopping block, a new activity that is conducive to your new aspirations must take its place, less you fill your precious time with more frivolous activities.
That’s is, it really is as simple as knowing the things that suck and rock in your life and making fine adjustments as needed. Before your know it, your life will be on full blown steroids and ready for world domination.
Now, how do you motivate yourself to get this shit done?
Drop laziness (part 2)
Gabriel
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