Time Will Pass, So Make It Count

Have you ever wanted to learn Spanish? Or how to do a single-arm push up? Or how to meditate? Or how to astral project??

I'm sure you've had goals that would've taken you quite a while to finish. Such a big while, in fact, that you thought it wasn't worth the time and gave up.

Why did you do that?

• Because learning Spanish would take years!
• Becoming good at meditation would take months, years, or more!
• Being able to do certain exercises not only takes months, but also effort!

Guess what! 

THE TIME WILL PASS WHETHER YOU DO SOMETHING OR NOT.

Look at the date right now. Add 1 to the year. 

When it's that date, you can either be someone who didn't even start meditating or exercising. Or you can be someone who may not have achieved the goal, but made a buttload of progress. Or you can be someone who made a decision a year ago and achieved their goal.

That being the case, wouldn't it make sense to just make some kind of progress? 

1% > 0%

Mathematically, you cannot be worse off if you just do something.

Let's say you want to meditate.

It's tough to keep your eyes closed and "do nothing" for 15 minutes, isn't it? Might as well not even bother, right? WRONG.

It'll take months or years, so take a damn minute to try it right now.

Let's say you want to do a single-arm push up, but you can't even do a regular push up.

That's a huge jump, so you might as well not even learn to do a regular one, right? WRONG AGAIN. 

Even if you don't manage to do a single-arm push up after a year, you'll be able to do a knee push up, a regular push up, or a Spider-Man push up.

But if you don't even start your goal because you thought it wasn't worth the time? After a year, you won't be capable of doing anything.

If you have a (reasonable) goal, don't be scared away by the time commitment. Instead, try this:

• Pick a goal.

• Do some math/map it out.

• Determine what the minimum amount of work you can do (while still making progress) is.

• Do at least that, every day/session.

• Document/measure along the way.

• Look back at your progress every so often, and gaze upon your triumphs.

What have you got to lose? Your time? You're gonna lose that either way, so take control of how it's used. Or don't. Decide how you want to feel about this decision a year from now.