Current Thoughts
| I’ve recently been reflecting on the reasons people fail to start and/or quit training. The reasons people verbalize can be broken down into three categories: time, money, pain. Time and money are measurements of value; what we actually value, not what we wished or feel like we should value. If our current investment of time and money into our health and fitness is currently zero, it’s unlikely to change should we experience an increase in either. Time and money are methods of value exchange. We exchange time to earn money to purchase things we value. When we choose not to invest in our health and fitness, we are assigning them a low value. In other words, we exchange our health and fitness for things that we value more. Typically American purchasing habits would reflect a higher value of status, comfort/safety, or pleasure. We exchange future health and fitness for current status, comfort, and pleasure. Pain can more be more accurately described as fear of pain. Fear of physical pain, social pain, emotional pain, or pain of loss. We’re afraid of being judged, getting injured, or changing our lifestyle. Often it’s the fear of the unknown. Though we’re well aware that the current path is failing to make us healthy or happy, it’s the devil we know and change is scary, so we succumb to fear. I believe all lack of investment in our physical health and fitness falls into one of these two reasons: “I don’t value it” or “I’m scared to make a change”. So, if this is you, it’s worth considering what you value enough to exchange your health for or why you’re afraid. |
Things I like
The most important decision you will ever make is who you marry. This quote helps provide clarity to that truth.
Your partner’s current life is your future life.
“When you select a partner, whether you realize it or not, you are choosing a whole lifestyle, and not just the person.
You’re choosing their sleep schedule.
You’re choosing their money habits.
You’re choosing their stress levels, their family drama, their levels of cleanliness, their work ethic, their coping mechanisms.
All of these things will be a baseline of your daily life.
If their normal is doom scrolling till 2 a.m., avoiding all conflict, impulse spending and never exercising, guess what? You’re signing up to live in that ecosystem.
Love does not cancel out people’s flaws.
In fact, love just makes you tolerate them for longer.
Most people obsess over ‘do we have romantic chemistry?’
And they completely skip ‘can I live with this person’s version of Tuesday every week for the next 10 years?’
The hard truth is, you don’t fix somebody’s lifestyle from the inside.
You either accept the package as they are or you walk.” — Mark Manson
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Have a great week!
David
