Don't let off the gas

“Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.”

I want to give up.

I am burnt out. I am tired. I am losing motivation.

I feel like this quite often.

But then I continue to ask myself:

WHY STOP NOW?

If I stopped today, what was the point in doing what I did yesterday? What was the point in doing what I have been doing for the last 3 months? The last year? Everything that I have done to this point has been building up to something. If I quit now, then all of that time was wasted.

You can feel burnt out. You can feel tired. You can lose motivation.

But only if you find a way to come back out of it.

Going so hard for so long has made me crave a vacation. I am craving some time off. So I will take some time to recharge. But I won’t quit. I won’t quit doing the habits that I have formed because they are ingrained in my ritual. I must do them each day. I have a strong purpose for everything I do. There is a reason behind my actions.

When it is easy, you have to go hard.

Finding focus was easy before. Writing was easy. Making time was easy.

Now, the season is heating up. Things are getting busier. I am getting more stressed. I am losing sleep. This is when that hard work I put in during the easy times will come into play.

WHEN YOU GO HARD IN THE EASY TIMES, THE HARD TIMES BECOME EASIER.

Mentally preparing yourself for things to get harder will make it so much easier when things do get harder. Every storm is followed by a calm and every calm is followed by a storm. Things have to be hard for them to ever be easy. If life was constant, there would be no easy and no hard. You wouldn’t have an idea of what else life could be like if it never changed.

You have to experience all seasons of life.

Just because summer is coming that doesn’t mean you should lose the winter mindset. Step on the gas during the easy times.

When I think about standing out I ask myself:

WHAT CAN I DO THAT OTHERS WON’T DO?

Let’s say I have a weekend off from work. Everyone else at work has the weekend off too. What most people will do is drink alcohol, eat unhealthy food, take time off from working out, watch TV, and relax. I still can do those things, but if I want to be better than them, I have to do less of those things and more of the things that make me successful.

I believe in enjoying your time off, but by simply doing half of the work you usually do, you are still going to make huge gains on the people who aren’t. If I drink half as less as everyone else, eat half as much food, still do half of the workout I usually would, watch half as much TV, and relax half as much, I will be twice as good as them.

And that’s just doing half. Imagine if you never took a break. You would be that much better.

If you want to be different, you have to live different.

When everyone else is relaxing, that’s when you step on the gas. That’s when you separate yourself. That’s when you become the best.

I get my work in when everyone else is sleeping and I sleep when everyone else is wasting time on nonsense. 

Make time to relax, but realize that working while everyone else is playing is what extends the gap between you and them.

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My goal is to inspire self-improvement in others through my personal stories and experiences.

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