There’s something to this that’s about creating a baseline, actually. To someone who wants more mass or to be stronger, ‘lifting’ is ‘lifting’.
To someone who wants to…I mean, I dunno, ‘know more’ is a stretch, but I guess if you want to read more books you buy or borrow more books.
Of course that's what a person would do--what am I talking about?
I mean to address the guilt or collapse loop of not doing something one 'wants to do' and is 'reasonably able to do' but just...doesn't. You brought up health and reading.
I got one: I get paid for art, right? And sometimes I don't do it. WHY? Don't I want to be paid to make MORE art? (Yes.) What's the f'n issue here?
I want to be healthier--->I don't know how
*Nope, that's not at hand here
I want to be healthier--->I'm not willing to eat wholly different foods (as an e.g.)
*Closer but I don't think we're stuck on particular obstacles
I want to be healthier--->fuck that shit I'll just fuck it up
*I don't know about you but here's where I find myself (though with $$$, not health)
When I'm paralyzed in that unreasonable space that just refuses, and we talk about 'lifting', that doesn't come to mind as a betterment for bulk or mogging or even strength...
I hear 'consistency of an action', because I'd consider myself a runner. I hear meditation when I hear 'lifting', and it's not because I see bodybuilding culture or gym culture or its adherents as holy and humble and mostly spiritual...it's that MY RELATIONSHIP to my body is in that space when I hear something like "yoga" or "lifting" or "running" or "lap swimming" or even things like racketball or squash (do people still play squash?) Which means it doesn't have to be lifting. Or meditation. Or a 'walk'. It's some consistency of a measurable action--temporally or task-wise.
Consistency of an action starts to clarify and run hard water over the other parts of your life where you're fucking stuck but shouldn't be (hi!), where you're fixed on something you should let go (hello there!), or when you know exactly what you want but like a Mule will not even SHIFT YOUR WEIGHT toward it even if you were more than halfway across an opening drawbridge literally THROWING YOU AT YOUR DREAMS (omg this is about meeee!).
My flailing times come more from a lack of consistent action than a lack of money/love/rest/health, if I'm being honest.
I need to turn this into a full blown article, I think. Let me finish on something silly I noticed the other day: I've been at my job for six months, right?
My Duolingo streak is over 100 days for the first time since I made an account. I stand at 184.
The moment I started my job, I started my streak. Consistency of action is a holy measure, not in an of itself--but it what it reveals about the parts of your life that require more attention, more flow.
There’s something to this that’s about creating a baseline, actually. To someone who wants more mass or to be stronger, ‘lifting’ is ‘lifting’.
To someone who wants to…I mean, I dunno, ‘know more’ is a stretch, but I guess if you want to read more books you buy or borrow more books.
Of course that's what a person would do--what am I talking about?
I mean to address the guilt or collapse loop of not doing something one 'wants to do' and is 'reasonably able to do' but just...doesn't. You brought up health and reading.
I got one: I get paid for art, right? And sometimes I don't do it. WHY? Don't I want to be paid to make MORE art? (Yes.) What's the f'n issue here?
I want to be healthier--->I don't know how
*Nope, that's not at hand here
I want to be healthier--->I'm not willing to eat wholly different foods (as an e.g.)
*Closer but I don't think we're stuck on particular obstacles
I want to be healthier--->fuck that shit I'll just fuck it up
*I don't know about you but here's where I find myself (though with $$$, not health)
When I'm paralyzed in that unreasonable space that just refuses, and we talk about 'lifting', that doesn't come to mind as a betterment for bulk or mogging or even strength...
I hear 'consistency of an action', because I'd consider myself a runner. I hear meditation when I hear 'lifting', and it's not because I see bodybuilding culture or gym culture or its adherents as holy and humble and mostly spiritual...it's that MY RELATIONSHIP to my body is in that space when I hear something like "yoga" or "lifting" or "running" or "lap swimming" or even things like racketball or squash (do people still play squash?) Which means it doesn't have to be lifting. Or meditation. Or a 'walk'. It's some consistency of a measurable action--temporally or task-wise.
Consistency of an action starts to clarify and run hard water over the other parts of your life where you're fucking stuck but shouldn't be (hi!), where you're fixed on something you should let go (hello there!), or when you know exactly what you want but like a Mule will not even SHIFT YOUR WEIGHT toward it even if you were more than halfway across an opening drawbridge literally THROWING YOU AT YOUR DREAMS (omg this is about meeee!).
My flailing times come more from a lack of consistent action than a lack of money/love/rest/health, if I'm being honest.
I need to turn this into a full blown article, I think. Let me finish on something silly I noticed the other day: I've been at my job for six months, right?
My Duolingo streak is over 100 days for the first time since I made an account. I stand at 184.
The moment I started my job, I started my streak. Consistency of action is a holy measure, not in an of itself--but it what it reveals about the parts of your life that require more attention, more flow.