Just need to rant about how easy it is to not be successful, if you want to get out the rat race you need to work and sometimes it is bloody tiring. Your body and your mind are by default programmed for short term satisfaction and happiness, hence look at all the fat people in todays society. Their mind knows they shouldn’t be having unhealthy food in the long term but it doesn’t care. The mind loves getting short term satisfaction. It could be as simple as that sugary sweet, taking that person home from the bar at the end of the night, skipping that class or sleeping in for several extra hours.
In a way I believe the mind isn’t smart enough to program itself for long term satisfaction. You may have goals and dreams and aspirations as to what you want to achieve in the long term but unless you want it bad enough to change your short term self you will never get there. It sounds like a harsh reality and it is and I don’t care if this makes you feel guilty because it needs to be said. Your long term goals will never be met without making short term changes over and over again.
The problem with this is you need to be disciplined, and depending on what your goals are you may need to be a little disciplined or extremely. I’m guilty of getting lazy, one month ago I was getting up at 5-5.30am 6 out of 7 days of the week, having a cold shower and working. As winter got closer and the mornings got darker and darker I slowly found myself waking at 5.45, then 6, then 6.15 and now I have settled around the 7am mark. Now I am doing this because my mind and body tells me to stay in bed, it is happy being there. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s warm and ‘safe’. The thing is my body was fine getting up at 5-5.30 I didn’t die, I didn’t burn out and I was giving myself approx. 12 hours more productivity every week.
People say they don’t have time to do things yet they sleep till 9am every day. If you get up at 6am instead of 9am you have all of a sudden created 21 more potentially productive hours in a week which equates to giving yourself a second weekend. You can now use these 21 hours to go to the gym, build a business, spend time with loved ones or take up a new hobby.
Rant over.
In a way I believe the mind isn’t smart enough to program itself for long term satisfaction. You may have goals and dreams and aspirations as to what you want to achieve in the long term but unless you want it bad enough to change your short term self you will never get there. It sounds like a harsh reality and it is and I don’t care if this makes you feel guilty because it needs to be said. Your long term goals will never be met without making short term changes over and over again.
The problem with this is you need to be disciplined, and depending on what your goals are you may need to be a little disciplined or extremely. I’m guilty of getting lazy, one month ago I was getting up at 5-5.30am 6 out of 7 days of the week, having a cold shower and working. As winter got closer and the mornings got darker and darker I slowly found myself waking at 5.45, then 6, then 6.15 and now I have settled around the 7am mark. Now I am doing this because my mind and body tells me to stay in bed, it is happy being there. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s warm and ‘safe’. The thing is my body was fine getting up at 5-5.30 I didn’t die, I didn’t burn out and I was giving myself approx. 12 hours more productivity every week.
People say they don’t have time to do things yet they sleep till 9am every day. If you get up at 6am instead of 9am you have all of a sudden created 21 more potentially productive hours in a week which equates to giving yourself a second weekend. You can now use these 21 hours to go to the gym, build a business, spend time with loved ones or take up a new hobby.
Rant over.
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