Unf*ck Yourself

Don’t let your mind control you any longer. Stop letting it hold you back with its excuses and distractions and worries. You are not your thoughts. You are your actions. You are what you do. And your actions are the only thing separating you from where you are and where you want to be.

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.” —Napoleon Bonaparte

“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” —Carl Jung

The only difference between you and the person who’s living the life you want is that they’re doing it. They’ve built that life, and they’re living it. They’re not smarter, more mindful, stronger, or any of that stuff. They don’t have anything you don’t. The only difference is that successful people don’t wait. They’re not waiting for the “right” m

Here’s the thing: Future you is not going to regret a lack of achievement or the absence of any one thing in your life. The only thing you will regret is not trying. Not pushing through when the going got tough.

It’s this simple: In order to improve your internal world, you have to start by taking action in the external world. Get out of your mind and get into your life.

But when our minds are ruled by these automatic thought processes, do we really have free will? Many would argue that we don’t. Listen, the bottom line is that you have to stop doing all that shit you know you shouldn’t be doing and start doing all the shit you know you should be doing. All of it.

Life can be like that at times. On some occasions you have to realize that the game has changed (sometimes dramatically so) and you need to pivot. Deal with your reality. Wake up, you’re in the water. Stop waving your arms about and paddle to shore dammit!

Anyone who’s ever gone to the gym knows that the results aren’t immediate. You don’t spend 30 minutes on the treadmill and look like a new person. But that doesn’t mean what you’re doing isn’t working. You’re making progress. With each exercise, each step, each movement, each action, you get a little better, a little closer. Until one day you look