Why it’s hard
I just killed a Beast.
The particulars aren’t important, although it wasn’t easy and it wasn’t quick. But I can tell you I’m looking at a hot, steaming pile of freshly slain EXCUSE on my living room floor, and I moved one day closer to my personal goals.
Why it’s hard
It’s hard because it’s so much easier to come up with reasons not to do something versus reasons why you should:
- I’m tired
- I’ll do double tomorrow
- I don’t have enough time
- I’d rather do this other thing
- I have so many other things to do
- etc., etc.
Even more nefarious is the reasons not to do something always somehow seem to make more sense than the one or two reasons you should. “I’m really tired today and maybe getting sick” seems like a really good reason to not do your workout compared to “I know I should”.
So, how to make it easier?
Sorry, kids, I don’t have an answer for this one. If there was a secret, someone would be making millions off it, and if it was easy everyone would be doing it. But there isn’t, and it’s not. It’s a one day at a time affair; you against The Beast. All I can say is that when it comes right down to it, right now this second, you can either decide to DO what you’ve said/promised you will do, or you can decide to NOT do what you said/promised you will do. And making that decision, really, is pretty easy either way.
What’s the payoff for slaying the Beast?
Ah, that one I can tell you and it’s pretty sweet. You know that feeling when you decide not to do something you’ve promised yourself you would do? Feels pretty crappy, right? And it doesn’t feel any better tomorrow. Well the feeling you get when you slay that Beast, and you follow through on your promise, and you do what you promised yourself you would do, is a thousand times better.
And, as an added bonus, it may be tomorrow, it may be next week or next month, but the next time The Beast thinks about sniffing around your rodeo, I can guarantee you it will think twice.
Good hunting, my friends…
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