Despite many factors that are in the way of doing all the heathier things necessary to maintain a healthier weight, this is all on me.
There are two questions you must ask yourself when faced with a situation where progress is not being made.
First, are you doing all that you can to put yourself in a better position for success? Because if you are, then there is a real problem with the goal, and you probably are targeting a useless one.
Second, what are you doing? Seriously, are you doing anything along the way to put yourself in any chance even to stumble upon success? Because the answer to this determines if the blame for your lack thereof goes solely to you if you are not putting in any effort to what you say your goal is.
I am having trouble keeping my weight down. I am not doing everything possible to succeed. Still, I am doing as much as possible despite every possible obstacle (including myself) that has become apart of my routine that makes it hard for me to establish a good eating and exercise routine.
I want to maintain a healthy weight and am actively working toward that goal, just not hard enough. And I know and understand that.
A 20-year-old named Jimmy Donaldson who goes by MrBeast on YouTube with a channel that has 7.8 billion views and 60.9 million subscribers.
I am not a subscriber, and zero views have come from me.
So how do I know about this guy?
Because I am working on growing my following on YouTube, and I do subscribe to a few channels that offer up tips for improving YouTube channel success. And they are using his fame to bring in other viewers.
Getting younger people to buy in on thinking about their legacy is a hard sell.
It’s hard to fathom that a decision when you are eight-years-old will affect how you are perceived when you are 80-years-old and how people may or may not still bring you up in conversation 80 years after that.
And once you are clued into the myth of the permanent record being mostly a myth, most of your young adult years seem like time you get to throw away.
But they are not.
Everything important takes time. The more important is it, the more time it takes, and the more intentional you must be with time.
If you have an idea to be something prominent, you must first have to have a good concept of time: how much time it will take, how much time you have, and how much time you spent doing other things before you decided you needed to do the prominent thing.
But the crucial part is having a good concept of how everything you were doing prior, despite seeming unrelated to your new prominent focus, was just the universe putting the right things in place on your journey.
And it helps if you are fortunate to have the wherewithal to think about your legacy while you are still young in years. Or at least have someone to nag you about your legacy before you get too far out of that window.
