I love this message, it’s an inspiring ass kicking! And thanks for the shocking visual reminder about smoking. I needed that too. Cheers buddy
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I really like your way to make affirmations funny in the beginning of this post and you are absolutely right about the root cause. You also wrote in a way that it was both entertaining and inspiring at the same time. Stumbled!
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It is a difficult trade off; pleasure now or accomplishment in the future? Live for now or do bigger things. Young people tend to say that life is short. However, when you get older you start having regrets because you didn’t make the personal development investments earlier. I am trying to make up for lost time before I reach the stage where I am too old and I tell myself it is not worth it anymore.

To use a little creative thinking and to find a way all good things more enjoyable is a fantastic idea. How do I make running more enjoyable? Maybe I just need to do it on a treadmill at an all female gym? Hmmm, yeah I think that might help…

Yes, that is what I keep trying to say when I talk about “passion.” People often have unrealistic expectations about what a good life is supposed to be. It is possible to enjoy everyday activities like work, cleaning, music practice, language learning, etc. Not because those activities are always exciting, but because they can be a form of meditation and personal development.

Thanks for the great comment. If you are going to die tomorrow than spending your last hours writing a business plan or cleaning your closet seem stupid. However, if you end up living for an extra 50 years, you can’t live everyday like it is your last. Sooner or later you are going to start having regrets. “I wished I started that business I wanted to 20 years ago.” “I could have cleaned my closet out a long time ago and benefited everyday by being able to find things easier.”

My point is that people who live for the now are trading doing even bigger and cooler things in the future. Most people overstate the short-term pleasures and understate the long-term benefits. I am not taking about working in a job you hate for the rest of your life. I am talking about working your ass off to accomplish something you really want.

I had an employee once who said that life is too short to not do the things he wants. However, he used that excuse to go out drinking every weekend. He had other passions that he always talked about but made barely no effort to accomplish.

It makes most clear sense with eating like you’ve portrayed here but it can be applied to so many vital things in life, if only I could have retrained myself to save all the dollars I spent and still spend on hoagies instead of making them myself, I could be making enough compound interest to live off of!! … relationship decisions, food, shopping, if the world would just take a minute or two longer to think about what they were doing, to calculate whether speeding to avoid being 2 minutes late or stealing that candy bar is worth it…well then…it would be a whole new world.
.-= Robert´s last blog ..Life Designed | 70 days in, What have I done?! =-.

For instance:
1. (30m) Work on 2 blog posts
2 (5m) buy that .com i’ve been meaning to
3.(20m) Setup that photo gallery script
and so on and so forth

I usually end up with about 10 things a day. I rarely finish them all, but theres some sort of satisfaction everytime i get to cross one off. Whenever I actually manage to get everything on my list done, i usually reward myself with a slack day the next day, or partake in some of those distractions we all love so much.

Love your site, keep up the good work
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