May 26
Choose Your Suck; Change Your Mindset From the Present to the Future
Life is all about choices
Wake up and accomplish something or lay in bed and waste away. Either way, it’s going to suck.
Do you know how many times I’ve said, “I know what to do, too bad I didn’t start 10 years ago.” More times than I can count. That’s the truth and it sucks.
Here, today, is your chance to choose the less sucky option.
Yes, this story is juvenile, repetitive, and dumb. But, gosh darn it, sometimes we all need a pep talk.
Being tired sucks, so does regret. Training sucks, so does losing. Work sucks, so does not supporting your family. Choose your suck.
Choosing the better option is usually a mindset shift from the present to the future. The easy decision is almost always, “What will make me feel better right now?” The superior question is, “What will make my life better going forward?”
That’s a hard transition to make for a lot of people.
Others seem to have it in one aspect of their lives but not others. That can be the most maddening. How can you be so competent in one area and so bad in another? Choosing your suck can and should be a transferable skill.
When the skill isn’t transferable I see it as the person having self limiting beliefs or incomplete information.
“I can’t get healthy, my entire family isn’t healthy, and modern medicine is incredible anyways.” Yes, you can get healthy if you consistently do a few easy things. The rest of your family didn’t do those things consistently either. Modern medicine is much better at getting you from infant to 5 years old. It’s better at adding some crappy years at the end when you are no longer healthy. If you made it past 5 you could expect to live just as long, if not longer, in the Mid-Victorian era while eating twice as much. Now, choose your suck.
Waking up at 5 every day sucks.
But, if 5 am is the only undisturbed time you can get to work, it’s the less sucky option. The alternative is saying, “Wish I did that 1, 2, 5, 10 years ago.”
No one said it was easy, no one said it wouldn’t suck. What I am saying is choose your suck. Choose the option that will make your life better, not the one that will make it easier in the present moment.
