Alex Glass
@aglass
Alex Glass
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy
glennon doyle • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom
Mark Manson • How to Improve Your Focus and Concentration
On our run I tell J: the unhealthy version of myself used to abandon things just because they got painful or inconvenient. The healthy part of me finds joyfulness in persisting in something for a very long time. In hindsight it sounds really obvious but it genuinely eluded me for a really long time: the mark of overall healthiness in spirit is bein... See more
Nix 🕊 • what's a good commitment?
feel bad to get good
We’re made so uneasy by the experience of allowing reality to unfold at its own speed that when we’re faced with a problem, it feels better to race toward a resolution—any resolution, really, so long as we can tell ourselves we’re “dealing with” the situation, thereby maintaining the feeling of being in control. So we snap at our partners, rather t... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
.
“The ‘bad’ workouts are often the most important ones.
It’s easy to train when you feel good, but it’s crucial to show up when you don’t feel like it—even if you do less than you hope.
Going to gym for 5 minutes might not transform your body, but it does reaffirm your identity.”
