Tag: resistance

Train your consistency muscles

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Consistency is difficult.

Because consistency requires three difficult choices.

  1. Old over new. Consistency is about doing more of what you have already done instead of going out and pursue whatever is shining.
  2. Long-term over short-term. Consistency delivers results in the end and you can’t be expecting easy and temporary wins.
  3. Rigour over laziness. Consistency means that you will not take the easy way out, no matter how fascinating that could look.

The good thing is, you can train your consistency muscles starting from the small things, the daily habits that might seem insignificant at first.

Pay attention as you get to implement those.

How does it feel?

Follow through

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The difficult part is not taking a decision. The difficult part is to follow through with the decision.

That’s why we end up in meetings to discuss the same things over and over again, to reassess, to reconsider, to go around the table. That’s why we feel stuck, incapable of progress, lacking development and purpose. And that’s why we feel frustrated, we frustrate others, and we eventually drift away in the wrong direction.

The greatest invention

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Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero. A lie becomes the truth.

Foundation, season 1 episode 9

You probably have no interest in writing or controlling history, but you should be invested in managing your own narrative. Who you are, what you stand for, what version of you is in your future, what goals will take you there, what people will you have closeby, what decisions you are making every day.

It’s easy to delegate all of this to others.

Be the right scribe to your very own history.

Reflection and learning

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Every ending is a new beginning.

But of course, we need to be able to appreciate the ending. To grieve. To be mad, frustrated, disappointed, sad. To stay with the negative for some time and let others know that we suffer because of the ending.

Then, we can start thinking about what “new” looks like. Because often, continuing on the same path, going back exactly where the ending broke the path, is not the best way to look for a beginning.

Every ending is a new beginning.

Let’s not use that anymore as a band aid on top of a wound, but as a process of reflection and learning.

The effect of time

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Healing takes time.

You won’t probably feel much better after a pill, a visit to the doctor, a massage, a session with a therapist. But with time, those things will have an effect.

You have to give healing time. Even when it seems like you don’t have any.