It’s said that 75% of people who join the gym don’t use it regularly but continue to pay their membership for a protracted period of time.
It’s not supposed to be easy to go to the gym – to stay fit or healthy. It’s difficult, particularly in today’s society and it seems to be why more and more people find it hard.
I walked into the Co-Op the other day around the corner from my house and everything made by Cadbury’s was £1. It’s not supposed to be easy to avoid the pressure of society to eat garbage for short-term dopamine hits. It’s difficult, but it is worthwhile.
It’s not easy to raise a family, to try to bring your children up in a way that would make future society proud.
It’s not easy to build a career or a reputation or relationships with a group of people in a business or any other setting.
It’s not easy to be married for decades.
It’s not easy to stay friends with the people you knew when you were young despite how important that might be.
It’s not easy to cave in and give up because society makes you feel that you should be able to achieve all of these things and look like Brad Pitt! (perhaps a bald Brad Pitt!)
As in the 12 step process that exists in Alcoholics Anonymous to kick the habit, where the first and hardest step is to admit the problem, perhaps for the likes of us the first thing is to admit that it’s not easy. Once we get over that hurdle we can just carry on and get on with the work. Hour by hour, day by day, pushing the line to the right and trying to make things better so that at some point we can look back down for a short while and say “we made a thing and it was good” whatever that thing might be (incidentally, the last step for AA is the one which is essential to reach and nail without which nobody stays off the drink. This is the sponsor step. This is where, once you’ve made it to a point where you think you’ve beat it, you commit to help someone else to beat it. Perhaps step 12 is as important as step 1)
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