If you struggle with building new habits, think this
Many people can do what they decide. They find it easy to plan something and then execute it. But these are rare gods. Most others are mere mortals doomed with struggling with ourselves to do something we want to do.
Too often, you end up deriding ourselves for not taking action. Perhaps you want to start reading, working out, writing, working harder, or learning something. But you just can’t do it, right?
This is like self-harm. You are inflicting blows on yourself.
That is not the way you are going to stop being lazy and inactive and start taking action.
Meditate on it like this. You want to do something. But you don’t. You are inactive and lazy. Why is that? Because laziness is like a habit and you have this ingrained habit from years that you are now trying to remove suddenly.
It is like smoking for years and being addicted to nicotine. You will rarely find the will to just quit and stop smoking cold turkey. You have to struggle against that craving each day you do not smoke.
Think of being lazy this way. You just have to get up and struggle each day against it. One day at a time you share punches. You win some days, you lose some. But slowly, as any ex-smoker can tell you, it starts getting easier.
You become a doer. You take actions. You start taking steps towards what you always wanted and not stay in one place.
Of course, occasionally, you may slip and become lazy again. But that is just the brain wiring of years falling back to default. This is why you must keep fighting the daily battles. One day slip is fine. But slip every day and you are back to being lazy.
You have to fight every single day, even after it gets significantly easy. Then it is like fighting a mouse with a broom. It is easy but if the mouse slips past, it can inflict some serious damage to you.
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