It is 3.25pm and I’m 2 days into the new found structure that I’m trying to instil.
I’ve pushed through times when I didn’t feel like working yesterday, and then a grind session this morning at 11am. There have been times when I feel flat but they always pass, and they always get replaced with progress.
Right now I feel a bit tired, feel like having some food or something to give me a quick hit, but I know the path that I’m on with my fitness and my finances, so I just need to stay on the course and keep making good decisions.
It’s important for me to remember when I’m enduring something tough that it will always pass, and I just need to break it down into smaller chunks. I don’t need to quit, or look for the escape route.
I’m only two days in but in this moment right here I feel motivated to push through and carry this on. Removing distractions from my life (food, news, alcohol etc) helps me focus on my work and remain a bit more committed to doing the work whenever the opportunity arises.
It’s always small periods of time when I feel like quitting and they’re so much more painful when I go through times of feeding my brain lots of dopamine. For example, it’s always more difficult to go through these times after I listen to an entertainment podcast, or as I found out this week, coming off a big weekend of drinking. But then I reset my dopamine levels with some hard work and tough periods where the pain is always replaced with progress.
This is so important to know, and to remind myself that the lulls will always pass, but when I’m in the moment it is still so hard to push myself to keep going.
But let’s not look too far in front of me. I just need to get through tonight with making good decisions, then get to bed with a series of good decisions made, and then I can start again tomorrow making some more good decisions and grinding through some tough times.
Tough times are not bad because they build us into the person we need to become to achieve our goals. I suppose the problem we encounter is that we always give in and resort to cheap hits of pleasure just before our work starts to compound.
I’m committed this time but I’m not getting too far ahead of myself. Just focus on tonight, then wake up and start again focusing on tomorrow. Focus on the inputs and getting those completed consistently and the outputs will come automatically as a result.