“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.”​ — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way​

French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

"Clarity is freedom. Know what is important to you and it will grant you the freedom to ignore everything else." -James Clear

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow." Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Questions are the answers you might need

You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.

"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin

Someone dumber and lazier than you is making 10x the money because they are too dumb to doubt themselves.” - Kyle Harrison via Trevor McKendrick newsletter

do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you

-rumi

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi