¶ Morning Cold Plunge: Embracing the Chilly Challenge
Cold plunge thoughts. Got a layer of ice on here this morning. Cold. The water is about 35 degrees this morning. It's chilly. I mentioned yesterday that I do the hard stuff in the morning so that I can do more hard stuff later.
¶ The Power of Early Morning Discipline and Motivation
I want to expand on that a little bit. I figure if I can get... I just gotta figure if I can get...
Some hard stuff done early on than when i want to make an excuse later i can say well i've already been in the cold plunge for three minutes this morning i can do this too and some days that's that's the only thing that keeps me going other days i feel like i have all the energy and motivation and discipline in the world but it's this discipline specifically that that keeps me doing this, to be disciplined, to have integrity about doing what I say I'm going to do and following through on that.
¶ Pushing Through the Pain: Doing the Hard Things
It's not always easy. Today is tough. It hurts, but I'm doing it. And by doing this right now, I know that later I'm going to be able to do the other hard thing that I need to do today. And you know what's crazy about motivation is you don't know when that hard thing is going to be hard. You don't know when it's going to be difficult to do something that is really quite simple and easy that you've done a hundred times before.
But that's the thing. Our temperament, our mood, our feelings change about what is hard and what's not. That's why when you don't want to, you got to do the hard things that you know you can do, even when it's painful.