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How do I stop being an undisciplined coward?
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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I see myself becoming this as well. I have some joint injuries/arthritis that put a stop to lifting and proper exercises for a while now I just lay around all the time. My job saps what little mental energy I have left. I barely get anything done. It sucks. There's a part of me that WANTS to not be this way but it's so fucking hard to get motivated. A year or two ago and I was doing so much and lately it's just... It's just gone.
I think, imo, you really just have to force yourself out of it. It's takes just putting all your will behind it. I have broken out before and will be better for a while but it's tough. K owing that it's a problem is at least the first step in ripping yourself out of the suck.
Something I have done in the past to help pull myself out of it is what I like to call "Doing the one thing." It's to do one thing, just something, every day, that will make tomorrow you glad you did it.
It's like, every day we go to sleep and when we wake up it's like a mental and emotion reset and we are a new person from the one that went to sleep yesterday. So my goal becomes, to do one thing today, that will make tomorrow me wake up and be glad I did a thing. Doesn't matter what it is. Just something "extra." Something that's more than just mindlessly existing.
Today I took a few cardboard boxes that have been sitting in the side of my office. I broke them down and put them in the recycling. That was my one thing. My one extra. So it's not there anymore, weighing on my mind like a sore.
Eventually maybe you do more than one thing. Or the one thing becomes a part of the rogue and you just push a little more, but as long as you did the one thing, you can just take the win. It's one hand up on the rope to pull yourself out.
I started drinking 1 part raw apple cider vinegar and 1 part raw honey daily (both have to be raw, about a tablespoon each) and my nascent arthritis has been greatly reduced; I got the idea from my mom who also started developing arthritis in her 20s. It took her about a year to see results, it took me only 2 weeks.