Making Yourself "Do It" and The Manual Override
This podcast was inspired by an email that I wrote recently about humans and their expectations for me to push them up the hill.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: I never want to do anything. Ever.
Right now I'm being more consistent with my running, which means fewer days off, and the same mileage. So, instead of running 5-6 days per week, I'm attempting to take no days off (unless something comes up, like a 12-hour drive to another state, which I have planned for next week.)
I love to run. I run more days than I don't. Last year, I ran 289 days, for 314 hours. And if a morning happens where I actually want to do it, it's a fucking miracle from GOD.
That's right. I do something just about every day that I do not want to do, and for it, I get to receive THE MASSIVE, INFINITE rewards that come from being a runner. Physically, great, it's fine-- but my mental health, my passion, my creative abilities, my clarity-- all of this is improved by my doing something that, every day, I initially do not want to do.
Do you know when I start liking a run? Mile 5.
I'm committed to showing up imperfect, so here's some blunt honesty:
I'm in year three of GTFO, and I came from (like many new entrepreneurs) the employee mindset. As an employee, I basically had to bend over, take it up the ass, and allow people to be "right" when I was "wrong." I had to please the people who gave me money, because, after all, they were giving me money.
Because of my trained employee mindset, I made mistakes as a new entrepreneur.
I ended up coaching some humans who wanted me to push them up the hill. They wanted me to do it for them. Because, after all, this game was so dull, and their TikTok deadened senses were in need of me to dance and sing and somehow make the glob of this shiny for their elementary school minds.
And as a "good employee," I thought that my job was to do just that! 😮 MAKE IT FUNNNN!
That's not my job.
I learned this lesson when I was coaching runners: there is no sexiness I can add to the plan that will make you want to take your ass outside. You're either going to do it or not.
You're either going to realize that you must push past discomfort to get the prize, or you're gonna be like 53% of my readers, get triggered, and unsubscribe. And I don't give one iota.
I don't have to push humans up hills. The days of lifting beer cases are over.
This podcast is about how, while the feel-goody breakthroughs are nice, manually overriding and making yourself do shit is non-negotiable.
Change does not happen without action, and, if motivation is a struggle point for you, you might not want to do it ever.
You don’t get to have the benefits of a new life without working for it. So, LFG bitches.
It’s a new era.
Here’s a link to the blog You Just Gotta Eat Your Food mentioned in the episode.
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