Discipline & Identity

Switching from gym to home workouts. How to avoid a disaster?

Working out at home S U C K S. There, I said it. The gym closes, the QR code stops working, and suddenly the closet needs reorganizing in the middle of your set. I learned this the hard way, so here are my four rules: start today, write a plan, act as if you were at the gym, and never, ever train in your Hello Kitty pyjama. Because the most dangerous words in fitness are “I’ll start tomorrow”...

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I don’t like my new city! How long should I wait before leaving it? Three simple steps to avoid a massive mistake.

New country, new city, and suddenly nothing feels right. The language, the food, the grey sky, the cost of living. Before you book that flight back, ask yourself for two months, roughly sixty days. I have three principles that got me through it, and the last one is private: remember why you came in the first place. Because one day you could be the old person at the dinner table saying, “I lived there,” and when they ask for how long...

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No Challenge – No Change. Greg Plitt’s Motivation

We all want change: a better Life, more happiness, a satisfying income. What we want far less is the painful part that comes before it. Greg Plitt put it bluntly: if your day doesn’t challenge you, don’t expect to be changed by it. And when I look back at every real improvement in my own Life, I can’t find one that didn’t follow a difficult period. Have you noticed the same in yours...

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