Every day is made up of choices.

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Welcome to the Grid, author unknown, YouTube Video

Egg Zit Pay Pairs by Captive Portal

Don't Tickle Me (feat. Benadiction) by Captive Portal

Bruntleek by Myriadar

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Every minute of every hour of every day

Is made up of choices

Do this

Don’t do this

Do that

Don’t do that

Your biggest opponent in life is yourself

And every minute is a battle against yourself

This is AADA, and I’m Craig Burgess

PLAY WELCOME TO THE GRIND

That’s a clip from Welcome to the Grind, and amazing motivational speech

I couldn’t find the original author so I’m sorry

But It sums up the grind entirely

And leaves me with little else to say

Let’s get back to choices

Every day, we get to make a choice to do the work

Or not do the work

We get to choose to do that thing we don’t want to do to reach that goal we really want

Or we choose to put it off for another day and delay that goal we really want

The people who are 60 years old and didn’t do the work

Look back, and wish they’d made the better daily choices

Grinding is not just for World of Warcraft

It’s a way to make yourself better every day of your life

5 times a week, I lift weights

Some days, I look at that workout I have to do

And I can’t be bothered

I’d prefer to do anything other than lift a couple of weights

But then I catch myself

And break the task down

It’s just 45 minutes

I tell myself

It’s 45 minutes today to make my life better for the rest of my life

To make sure I have a strong body, strong bones, and a strong mind

45 minutes to give me a better life

I enjoy lifting weights

But sometimes I don’t

And I’d say it’s split 50/50 between

But I know if I stay consistent

And I keep grinding out session after session

I get better

I don’t have to do anything else

But just turn up, and be willing to put in the work

It’s automatic

It’s why I do daily 365 day challenges

It removes my ability to make a decision to do something or not

If I’ve said

Very publicly by the way

That I’m gonna do this thing every day for 365 days

I have to

I’m stubborn like that

Our brains are powerful, complex things

And it’s amazing what we can do with them when we give them a task

It’s even more amazing how good we can get at stuff if we just stick at it

And apply some consistency to our actions

In life, we can’t rely on motivation or inspiration

Motivation is fleeting, inspiration strikes every now and again

To be good at anything

We need to get used to the grind

We need to embrace the grind

And be willing to turn up every day

Whether you want to or not

Whether you’re tired, bored, or sick of everything

You turn up

And do the work

That’s what the grind means

OUTRO

This was AADA. I’m Craig Burgess.

Music featured in this episode was

Welcome to the Grid, author unknown, YouTube link in the show notes

Egg Zit Pay Pairs by Captive Portal

Don't Tickle Me (feat. Benadiction) by Captive Portal

Bruntleek by Myriadar

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