Every day in the morning before rising from bed I try to think about three things that I'm grateful for. Nothing special.
Today I realized something more meta: what gets me up from the bed in the morning happy and excited, is the fact that I get to do it all over again, that I have another chance to do things better.
When your focus is getting better at life you can never arrive, there is always something more you could improve.
What's more, my daily routines don't feel like chores, they are the reward.
In 2021 I challenged myself to run everyday, 365 days no exception, and I completed my challenge successfully. Interesting enough in 2022, as I'm writing this in February I'm still running everyday, today it was day #419.
Running every day might be hard for some people but for me this is the best part, and I love to start my day with it.
Something interesting about the daily routines is that it feels great to do them when I should, but it feels terrible if I procrastinate and push them later in the day.
Running in the morning feels great because I'm doing what I want, running at 11:30 p.m. makes me hate my life, I'm doing it because I have to -otherwise I would fail the day and break my streak. I know because I did both.
It feels great to know that today I am improving on yesterday, it feels like I'm building something real. A better me.
In the past two months after taking the challenge to write everyday for at least one hour, I procrastinated so much and I found it so painful that I always wrote around close to 12am. I have weeks and weeks when I finished writing around 12am, and that only because I don't want to fail my challenge. I refuse to give up and I prefer to take the daily pain.
But I knew that I can make things better. And somehow not getting the pain for one more day is a way to happiness. And yes, knowing that you have another chance, a new opportunity to step away from pain that I myself create by procrastinating, but I'm also able to avoid through my own actions. This is exciting.
For example, yesterday I finished one hour of writing a bit earlier around 9pm, and I was thrilled to see some improvement.
If why we are here is to serve, and to serve well by mastering ourselves, I was wondering, can this ever end?
Can can you reach a point where you say: you know what, today I have nothing to do I have, everything is perfect.
If you want to slack and not do anything you can, but otherwise, there is always something to improve, there are always new things happening.
Things constantly change, even if you have it perfect today, tomorrow you don't know what happens and then you need to adjust. Second, you develop new interest, you want new things, and therefore you have to learn to align yourself with the same principles around those new goals and projects.
When I started writing this article I hated my life, now I'm happy because I get to sleep.
And tomorrow I start all over again I have a new chance to maybe just maybe not reach to the same place and do it better.
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