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@ Antoni Salvatore
2025-04-19 15:09:18š©ø
The world wonāt stop and wait for you to recover.Do your duty regardless of how you feel. Thatās the only guarantee youāll end the day alright.
Youāve heard it before: āThe worst workout is the one you didnāt do.ā Sometimes you donāt feel like going to the gym. You start bargaining with laziness: āI didnāt sleep wellā¦ maybe I should skip today.ā But then you go anyway, committing only to the bare minimum your energy allows. And once you start, your body outperforms your mindās assumptionsāit turns out to be one of the best workouts youāve had in a long time. The feeling of following through, of winning a battle you were losing, gives you the confidence to own the rest of your day. You finally feel good.
And that wouldnāt have happened if you stayed home waiting to feel better. Guilt wouldāve joined forces with discouragement, and youād be crushed by melancholy in a victim mindset. That loss would bleed into the rest of your week, conditioning your mind: because you didnāt spend your energy on the workout, youād stay up late, wake up worse, and while waiting to feel āready,ā youād lose a habit that took months of effort to build.
When in doubt, just do your duty. Stick to the plan. Donāt negotiate with your feelingsāoutsmart them. āJust one page today,ā and youāll end up reading ten. āOnly the easy tasks,ā and youāll gain momentum to conquer the hard ones. Laziness is a serpentāyou win when you make no deals with it.
A close friend once told me that when he was at his limit during a second job shift, heād open a picture on his phoneāof a fridge or a stove he needed to buy for his homeāand that image gave him strength to stay awake. That moment stuck with me forever.
Do you really think the world will have the same mercy on you that you have on yourself? Donāt be surprised when it doesnāt spare you. Move forward even while stitching your wounds: āIf you wait for perfect conditions, youāll never do anything.ā (Ecclesiastes 11:4)
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