For a long time, I have been plagued by this paradox.
While wishing for a new set of circumstances we simply overlook all of the solutions which have the power of transforming us into the person ready to handle said circumstances.
Picture this.
You look in the mirror, clearly bothered by those 30–40 Covid-pounds, wishing you didn’t stuff your face with pizzas and sodas while binge-watching The Witcher.
You make the decision to change. You come to terms with your desperation. You’re fired up by the desire to improve.
But you don’t.
Again!
Since the New Gods of Self-Improvement are flooding the web space with countless techniques and plans and diets and revolutionary habits, you, once again, turn into a consumer instead of a doer.
For the past 2,000 years, one sentence has been eluding hundreds of millions of people worldwide: “Faith without works is dead”- James 2:14–26.
Obviously, the apostles were more compassionate in the way they chose to deliver the message, they took time packaging their teachings in the forms of stories, parables, fables, and so on.
But, I would argue that today’s population is waaaaaay too stupid and indoctrinated to gain any form of inspiration and influence from basic common sense.
Anyone who tries to help people through words alone is doomed. Anyone who tries to convince people to change without offering a viable, hands-on, simple, and effective solution that brings results as fast as possible is going to be ignored.
Professors and coaches talk down from their high horses about concentration and focus while the attention span is barely reaching the 2-second mark.
How can someone wake up early, do a 1-our workout and read for 30 minutes TODAY?
I’ve met many who ask themselves this question, almost as if it isn’t their fault for letting themselves go and destroy and trash their vessel and mind.
Even though it might not be moral, the best way to teach people is to encourage them through negative examples.
Here is one: statistics show that 90% of the world’s population is not working out and 95% is not reading ATLEAST 1 book a year.
90–95%!!!!!
If this doesn’t motivate you, what will? Reading another post? Watching another video? Listening to another seminar?
Do what others don’t and, please, be honest with what you want.
