One of the hardest things that i ever did in my life like in terms of the
sheer amount of willpower it required was doing a three-day water
fast and i literally tricked myself into doing it like it wasn't even my
plan to do this thing i only found out about it two days ago
yet here i am haven't not eaten for the longest period of time in my entire life
and i like the fact that i'm starving how did i pull this off
how did i trick myself to like doing such a hard thing
well it's actually quite simple see during that period of time in my life
i was getting fat i was traveling around a lot and i sort of have this obsession
with trying out new foods whenever i go to a new country
including fast food chains so one day i ended up
stuffing myself past my limit with mexican food and i was feeling super
tired and bloated so i decided to jump on my phone and
browse a subreddit called r fitness because i felt like i had gone
too far this time and that i had to start shedding off
some of that belly fat i had accumulated and by pure chance while scrolling
through the subreddit i came across a post
showing a before and after picture of someone who had undergone
a huge transformation in a very short period of time
it was something like 20 pounds in just two months i was impressed and intrigued
at the same time how in the world did this guy do this
so i clicked on the post and started reading the comments it turns out that
all he did was fast and i'm not talking about
intermittent fasting or a 24 hour fast this guy was doing
weekly fast no food just water for an entire week at a time my initial
thought was this is crazy is that even safe to do
why would anyone do this but someone in the comments linked
to another subreddit called r fasting so i clicked on that and it
turns out there's a huge community of people who love talking
about fasting so i decided to sort all of the posts by
top of all time and i started reading and boy i was
blown away there were countless posts preaching about all these benefits of
fasting that i had never heard of before and most of these posts were backing up
their claims with trustworthy studies oh my god there were so many benefits
apparently it promotes extremely fast fat loss with barely any muscle loss
it boosts your immune system by triggering something called a pathogen
it enhances your brain power it rebalances your gut
it keeps you focused the list goes on and on and on
and i was hooked hooked on reading about all these benefits and looking at all
the before and after pictures of people who had undergone the most
amazing of transformations i spent the entire day
binge reading about what fasting could do for me
i remember scrolling through the subreddit while i was using the bathroom
i remember falling asleep to a documentary where they talked about all
these elderly people in some european country who would go to a
special clinic and fast and it actually helped with
many of the symptoms for the diseases they were suffering
from i fully immersed myself in the world of fasting and when i woke
up the next day all of a sudden i was motivated to do this
thing this thing that i had never even heard of two days prior
and the next day i started my first three day
fast i was able to trick myself into doing something extremely hard
by making it seem like it was the most important life-changing thing
that i could be doing in the entire world basically i sold the living crap
out of it to myself by exposing myself to the things they
promised over and over again all day long see the thing is if you can
sell yourself on something if you can convince yourself that doing
this one thing will change your life you will have essentially tricked
yourself into doing it in fact you will crave it you won't even have the
patience to wait because you'll want to start it that
badly you have a hard time meditating okay
go hang out on the meditation subreddit and start reading about all the benefits
go binge watch hours of videos on youtube about the most successful people
in the world who meditate and why they do it fall
asleep listening to a documentary talking about how many benefits that
you'll get and how it'll change your life forever
do this for one to two days non-stop and i guarantee
you'll be aching to meditate because you've convinced yourself that it's the
most important thing that you could be doing
in the entire world and that's how i trick myself into doing
hard things now it's important to note that doing
something hard like this and building a habit are two
different things what i'm teaching you here is how to generate huge amounts of
motivation so that you can take action in order to
be consistent you need to learn how to turn this action
into a habit and you can learn more about this by checking out my free habit
building course which i will link to in the description box below
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intermittent fasting so i've been listening to life in the
fasting lane by jason fung it's a good book that tells you
about the many benefits of this form of fasting so if you're interested in that
you can definitely check it out and besides that guys
stay tuned you