Yesterday wasn’t a great day – about 6 hours of work despite having the whole day free, and a calorie deficit of only 200. I gave in at 9am from fasting, and then found a lot of wasted time.
While it’s not ideal, it’s a great learning experience for me. The only reason I gave in was because I wasn’t able to act in spite of how I felt. That is it. If at 9am I acted in spite of how I felt, I would’ve sat down for another 30 minutes of work, or done one of the other habits I needed to do.
I think sometimes I act as if the pain is permanent when in reality it’s always temporary and it doesn’t even usually last as long as we think. Plus I think that working through periods of boredom and monotony.
I’m very grateful that I get another opportunity to try this out today and have a productive day. I have no doubt that today will be hard but I can get through it and change the trajectory of my life.
There are so many opportunities out there available to me but they will only come based on the actions that I take. The actions are the people I speak to, the work I do, the service I provide, the additional value I try to add, the conversations I have, the reflection and subsequent actions.
I was going to write that there is opportunity waiting for me and I suppose that’s right, the opportunity is waiting for you to take action. Today.
I don’t know how today is going to pan out, however if I just commit to making small good decisions, acting in spite of how I feel, and remembering that I’m in control of my mind, then I can at least finish today knowing I did my best.
This 180 days isn’t about doing something that is sustainable, this is about making a giant push to change the direction that my life is moving in. Taking some massive action for 180 days can change my life forever, I know this. But not taking the action is going to cause me to miss out on opportunities.
At the end of this 180 days I know what I want my life to look like, but that means I must be prepared to do something that most people won’t for this period of time to break cycles and create something that most people could never create.