The sooner you get done with this the more time you have to yourself for the day. What is the trade off? It’s just some discomfort. You’re tired and you want to sleep in some more but how good will that sleep be compared to the feeling of knowing that you’re all done with everything you had to do for the day before your day even got started. The answer is dependent on your urgency to start improving yourself. You say you need to get a little bit better every single day, well this is what getting better entails. Getting more efficient with your day. So don’t stop going forward right now. Keep on closing in on your goal for the day by focusing on what you’re doing right now. Leave behind the thought of wanting to go back to bed, or wanting to do this later. Either way it’s gunna suck to do, now or later. You’re doing it now so might as well see it through.
And once you push through, you’ll realize it was never as bad as your mind made it seem. The weight of hesitation is always heavier than the effort itself. The longer you stall, the more unbearable it feels, but the second you start moving, that resistance starts to fade. It’s not about avoiding discomfort—it’s about proving to yourself that you can handle it, that you can override the part of you that begs for the easy way out.
Every moment spent debating whether to keep going is just energy wasted. The time will pass either way. The only difference is whether you’ll look back and be proud that you used it well or frustrated that you let it slip away. So keep your head down, focus on this one step, then the next. Before you know it, you’ll be done, and the satisfaction of finishing will always outweigh the fleeting relief of stopping.
That’s how progress is made—not through grand moments of inspiration, but through choosing action, over and over again, no matter how small. Keep going.
