Isn’t it funny that often when we don’t want to do something, like REALLY don’t want to do something, and we do it, we end up seeing that that is exactly what we needed? And we feel better?
Much better?
Satisfied, almost at peace because we listened to our gut feeling.
Often the act of forcing ourselves through a certain activity we know we ‘should do’ when we want to do nothing else but scream at it, produces the best results.
You could be writing (creatively, studying or for work) and the act of writing one sentence sparks an idea, a word you want to pursue.
A flood of sentences follows and then you have paragraph, then a page.
Or it could be exercise. When you know you should go for a run.
Or hop on the exercise bike.
Or lift some weights.
When you would rather get hit by a bus than grind through those 30 mins. That’s when we need to do what we are running from.
Because those days when we don’t “feel like it".
End up being the best fucking days.
They are the days when you think, “holy shit, I feel ALIVE" after a workout.
When you leave the gym with a swagger in your step, head high, chest out, because you know you fucking earned that sweat, and you made yourself proud.
When you end your run feeling like you are flying.
Blood pumping.
Sweaty.
Even if it wasn’t as long as a usual session.
Even if you didn’t lift as heavy as you might have.
Even if you didn’t run as far or as fast as you could have.
You still went out.
Got moving.
Got writing.
Got to sending emails.
Got to studying.
Got to learning.
YOU PROGRESSED.
And that’s better than 95% of the world
And you know what’s funny?
Once you get going, once you get into the motion and rhythm.
You’ll start to feel motivated.
You’ll start to get into it.
You’ll start to feel your inner dog coming out, barking and straining at the leash.
Those days can end up being the ones where you do more and push more than you ever
would have imagined.
All it takes is a step.
A letter.
An email.
A decision to keep the promises you made to yourself.
That you would do what it takes.
To get to where you want.
As Andy Frisella says in a recent IGTV video: “The time you feel best about yourself is right after you get done doing something really fucking hard”.
Period.
End of story.
The Truth.
Stay Aspiring.
Misha, N.Y.A
Something Small
Pain is love and love is pain
Rainy days in search for pain
Then painful days in search of rain
Loves a glue, binds the pain, finds the rain
Keeps us sane or so we say
Synonyms for things we give, things we feel
On the grind to turn the wheel
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