ADVICE
Things to Remember While Changing Your Life
It is not for the faint of heart
Introduction
I just completed my 140th workout in a span of 180 days. Who knew that changing your life would suck so damn bad?
Maybe you can relate. I hope so, because in the midst of the “sucking,” it’s also a fascinating journey of self-discovery. Turns out, you don’t know yourself as well as you thought.
I’m still in the very early stages of a massive life upgrade. Here are three things I learned during the past six months that you will be smart to remember while changing your life.
1. Throw Your Feelings in the Trash
Any good personal development book will tell you that you’ll never get far if you only do things when you feel like doing them. In all these days of consistent exercise, I only felt like doing it on Day one.
Since then, I’ve had countless feelings of resistance and more than a few times when I was still in pain from previous days. Once, I had to deal with my car breaking down on the way to the gym (and still made sure to show up) and several other unexpected occurrences.
Each time, I had to disallow those things from becoming excuses for me not to complete…
