Does this sound familiar to you?
You’re unhappy where you are and decide to make a big change. So you make a list of everything you have to do the next day in order to have a ‘perfect’ day. But then, when that next day comes…
You don’t do any of it.
Or worse,
You actually DO what you planned to do, and you’re very proud of yourself. You even stay consistent for a few days, life is great. Until you have a random bad day.
Then the self sabotage starts.
You think to yourself:
“Oh, I f*cked up my streak anyway, might as well f*ck it up even more. There’s no point doing this anyway. Why do I even make my own life so hard?”
I used to be like this too.
But honestly, it’s just stupid.
I mean, you wouldn’t tell a fat guy who’s trying to lose weight: “Hey man, make sure to stick to your diet every day, if you skip one day you’ll be fat again!” Even though he already lost 5 kgs’s in 4 weeks. You’d be a real asshole if you said that, right?
It doesn’t make any sense.
So, here’s what you do instead:
When you f*ck up (as is very likely to happen anyway-so it will serve you better to just expect to f*ck up at some point, so you’re not surprised when it happens.) Just say to yourself: “Oh, it’s fine, one bad day won’t kill me, let’s just keep going tomorrow. And then proceed to have the perfect day the next day.
Wouldn’t that be a way smarter approach?
Try that next time you f*ck things up.
Instead of being a moron and ruining all your progress because of one bad day. Or worse, quitting all together. You’ll never achieve anything with that mindset.
Don’t be an idiot.
Victor Vandermoere