Therefore, you don’t lose any weight or build any muscle. You follow all the steps but with the commitment of a drunk sorority girl. You want Ryan Gosling’s body, so you start to eat kind of healthy, you sometimes do some crunches on a Bosu ball. In a critical way, achieving life goals is no different than making cookies, although there might be fewer calories involved. When in reality there were dozens of integral steps along the way and you missed them because you weren’t focused or committed and therefore the end product didn’t work. Baking is stupid, I am just naturally a bad baker, I have a genetic predisposition to bake like an idiot” or however you rationalize half-assing it to yourself. Even though you know about a dozen places you could have improved on how you baked the cookies, your inner monologue goes something like “I pretty much followed the recipe. When you pull out the cookies, they look like Donald trump’s hair had a lovechild with sheep dung. You didn’t measure properly, you lazily mix them in the wrong order, forgot to pre-heat the oven and baked them for twice the recommended time. You have all the necessary ingredients for making delicious cookies but, you half-assed the execution. Two years later you’re down two grand and have no mas Espanol. If you take one Spanish class once a month and don’t practice in between, the rate at which you forget the language will be greater than at which you learn. Anything less than the threshold in those endeavours means you’re just trying to make your Instagram interesting. This means that anything you do, any project you undertake, requires a minimum amount of effort before any results can be expected. Why does this happen? Because most areas of life have a threshold for results. I see people all the time who make great decisions.
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