Imagine this: your body naturally opposes anything that puts it outside of its comfort zone… so you make such gradual, incremental, deliberate changes that you essentially slip past your body’s comfort zone radar detectors and ninja your way to a better life without getting thwarted with every single one of your body’s exhausting resistance mechanisms.
I honestly think this is a viable path.
When you do less, you can rest more.
When you rest more, you’ll have more energy to do what’s hard.
When you do more of what’s hard, you’ll get ahead.
Don’t let people fool you into thinking you always have to do more—it’s a trap.
When you take your total energy and divide it amongst more tasks it equals less energy for all of the tasks: including (and most importantly) the hard ones.
And less energy for the hard tasks is how you fall behind.
Don’t fall for it.
Do less.
When things are easy… less of you is required.
And if you only do what’s required… you’ll end up becoming less.
Less than what your god-given potential is capable of becoming.
Want to become more?
Well… Remember this when things get hard.
We’ll see how badly you really want it.
P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.
“The body is the first student of the soul.”
Henry David Thoreau, via MoveMe Quotes
…And the ego is what intercepts the soul’s communication to the body.
If we don’t learn how to befriend the ego—it will always be our enemy.
What makes the ego our enemy is its relentless desire to choose immediate over delayed gratification. The ego wants comfort now. It wants pleasure now. It cares nothing of later.
And it is in this one main desire—to seek immediate pleasure and avoid immediate pain—that our body suffers. Because what’s generally good for us is what involves delayed over immediate gratification.
If we want our body to succeed—the soul’s first student—we need not underestimate the ego and its deceptive, cunning powers. We need to come prepared. Like a parent ready to confront a moody toddler that’s about to choose violence.
We need to keep our beliefs clear; our boundaries enforced; our strategies at the forefront of our mind; our patience overflowing; and our love (not our tolerance) unconditional.
We have to find easy (easier) ways to do the hard things now, so that we can achieve the later outcome of peak overall health that each of our souls want us so badly to achieve.
For more thoughts on the ego, you can browse my collection of 45+ quotes & resources here.
The things you do daily shouldn’t be misery inducing.
They also shouldn’t be challenge-free and mind-numbing.
The things you do daily should be somewhere in the goldilocks middle.
Easy enough to show up for (even when you don’t want to); hard enough to keep you from atrophy or regression.
Get this balance wrong and you’ll either burn-out (and yo-yo) or blow out the flame of your potential.
Two consequences that are happening far too often in our society.
It’s time to level up your Goldilocks game, eh?
…What a beautiful mindset for getting things done long-term.
Committing to something for months/years/life can be intimidating.
But committing to today?
No problem.
Just for today: read, write, draw, exercise, meditate, etc.
And simply repeat this mindset again when you wake—tomorrow.
Daily affirmation: “I am not building a Lego house.”
Continued: “I am building a skyscraper. I am building a towering and intricate legacy of work that deeply reflects a long-lasting and firm commitment to steel, brick, and mortar—not cheap, plastic toys.”
Repeat as needed when things get tough.