you have to be the hero of your own story and you can do that 90% of is just
showing up get there and start working like you're not gonna feel perfect every
day
there's got to be those days you push through and there they're probably gonna
be more numerous than the days you don't and so the benefit of discipline in my
eyes has always been that through discipline I get things done write down
everything you want to do this is what I want you to do write down what you would
like to fix about your life and then just if you're 30 pounds overweight you
want to lose 30 pounds do it the right way
go start eating vegetables monitor your calories write down what you eat
exercise every day force yourself to do it the brain is the general the troops
of the body and you get up and you do it and then you get to write it down our
bodies for whatever reason most people their associations are to avoid anything
that's uncomfortable
it's so illogical because when you look at comfort and you look at success and
progress and in eventual the feelings of accomplishment and of getting past
certain hurdles and in terms of like how you feel about life a lot of those are
connected to discomfort like discomfort is your friend it really it a discomfort
and and not being happy and content with certain situations in life or certain
feelings in life one of the big problems is sitting down and doing the work and
he labels it like an enemy he calls it resistance you know and that you have to
sit down you have to overcome resistance and that the pro goes to work and it
doesn't matter if you're sick doesn't matter if you have kids it doesn't
matter what you you're a pro and you go to work and that and that just it puts
it in your head that this is what I do you have pride in that and then when you
are in front of that keyboard and you're you got you look down the count it's set
for the files more than you yeah you you're doing the work and out of that
work gems blossom and it's about resistance that people feel when you
know you should write or you know you should paint or whatever you should
sculpt whatever these things are you pursue and that there's this thing that
comes up that tries to keep you from doing this
this resistance
you're not a hero in your own eyes you're not you're not someone who you
respect you know you're doing what you got to do to get by but ultimately
you're not respecting yourself and I think we all have a certain amount of
appreciation and respect for hero figures you know like we all look at
like the guy who never lies and it always does the right thing and fucking
helps everybody out and that's the John Wayne character you know that's that's
the ultimate hero and he's like this is a battle that you will fight for the
rest of your life but the key is to fight it not to give in don't give in to
that resistance to fuck just to fight that resistance and in doing so every
day you do so you have won the battle for that day and you will continue to
fight that battle and when you look at your own life and you don't stack up
you're a thief you stole money from your wife's purse and you know you don't want
to smoke cigarettes but you fucking have to you can't deal with the stress and
smoke you devalue yourself you slowly start devaluing yourself you look at
yourself you realize that if you were judging yourself you would judge
yourself unfavorably so no matter who you you can't pretend
you're the hero of your story
you can be the hero of your own story that woke up today you could be the hero
of your own story that at forty years of age stopped got out of bed and said I'm
not doing this anymore
only by my instincts and only by my morals and my ideals and my mind and I'm
gonna be dead honest with myself because I'm realizing this is not gonna last
forever and I'm gonna get myself in shape but I'm gonna eat healthy and I'm
gonna do this because this is this is me now
I decide that this is me
and people have to realize that you are not your past you are not all the times
you fucked up they're not all the times you were drunk that's not you what you
you are the person who's learned from a great deal of experience when you're
alone with your thoughts you get an idea of what your thoughts actually are you
live your life just acting constantly on the momentum of other people's
expectations of you wanting to be liked by these other people you can run into a
trap and you you you set up a life that you
didn't really want your life is certainly some sort of a journey it's
certainly some sort of a journey
you're trapped in this situation where you have a mortgage
you've got credit-card bills you've got student loans you have to pay you have a
bunch of shit going on you have to continue to feed and all that and
especially if you have a family and you have to feed them oh my goodness
then you're fully locked in you can't take any chances whatsoever and
oftentimes people make the mistake of getting stuck and it is just a tactical
mistake just like it would be a mistake if you got stuck on a video game just
like it would be a mistake if you followed a map incorrectly and you get
stuck in the woods your life is certainly some sort of a journey it's
certainly some sort of a journey and we have to all be aware that when we're
making journeys we're not going to always make the right steps and
sometimes you have to back up and try again and if you're in a position where
you can't back up and try again you've trapped yourself as people define
themselves by the past instead of thinking about who they are now and said
if they still look back at a mistake they made and don't just get past that
mistake grow and learn but dwell on think it defines them
I mean there's definitely pitfalls in life you're gonna run into him we all
are no you didn't learn and grow if you
survive somewhere along the line they didn't face enough of the adversity to
realize that there's sometimes you just got to get up and get shit done there's
sometimes we have to fucking pull yourself up and you have to push forward
even if you want to stay in bed having that safety net just provided him with a
way to stay in bed kept him weak have an opportunity every time things go wrong
every time things feel terrible you have an opportunity to learn from whatever
makes you feel terrible and never allow it to happen again
push forward the system will set out honey pots for people to get trapped in
the system will set out the ideas of retirement the ideas of the Golden Ears
providing you benefits providing you a healthy work environment why well
because they want people to work for them they don't want people to realize
their own dreams and escape they want to set it up so that you stick around stick
around some sort of an unsatisfying world it's up to you to see that video
game problem to see that issue as it comes up on the map and known I think
this is a right turn to see all the problems that could potentially lay in
front of you and calculate your your future and then also look around all the
people that didn't do it and look at the misery that they're in and learn you
don't want to be like them
and most people get stuck in these patterns or they define themselves on
the person who doesn't follow through on their ideas or a person who doesn't
pursue the real interests and loves you define yourself by that well you know I
guess when I start things and I quit no you don't know you have started things
and you quit and it gives you a horrible sense of regret that's made you define
yourself by that you don't have to do that I look back on anything I've ever
done mistakes ever made a pass that I you know what something I
put out that I didn't quite yeah maybe I waited three months before I released
that or maybe I should have you know rieta to that blog post a couple more
times before I put it online or things that I've done have driven me crazy but
yelling at someone I didn't have to yell at them for whatever but the most
important thing is always for all people to recognize that you're not who you
were a year ago you're not who you were five years ago you're not who you were
last week so you gotta regulate how much you dwell on regrets of the past you
really got to be careful
it's also directly proportionate to the amount of hardships that people face in
life their ability to face hardships you know and there's a lot of folks that
live life on a cushy cloud of marshmallows and bullshit and then one
day something goes wrong and then look at the people that are have kind of
taken chances and navigated their way what did they do differently
what insight into their own mistakes are they willing to delve into that you're
not that you step back and go you know I don't I just don't want to look at
myself that closely but the person who's able to look at themselves the closest
it's gonna get the more rational results
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