The word “instant” is not synonymous with value. In order to make something good and lasting, you need to admit that when you start out, the habit that you are trying to create or change or break will tell you that your efforts are tedious, boring, and unwanted.
This scenario occurs between your ears. In your head.
Consider this: If someone (not you) – your friend, relative, spouse, children, or someone sitting next to you on the train – voiced identical concerns and doubt, in the same words you hear inside, how would you react?
Acceptance? I doubt it. Some fiber of your being would step up to declare how wrong or misinformed or idiotic the idea was that you couldn’t change something about yourself.
So, the next time you decide to start eliminating the negative elements of your life – be it too much sugar, a weakness for doughnuts, an unwillingness to exercise, being too stubborn to consider both sides of a question – be strong. Mute the voice of doubt inside your head.
Know that anything worth doing will not be instant. Consider, as put forth by Seth Godin, the concept of “Hard Work vs. Long Work”
Go forth. Know that you are not denying or subtracting sugar, or lack of exercise, or hatred from your existence. You are ADDING something good, lasting and beautiful to your very being.
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