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Has the Steam Left Your Sails?
By: Ethan Suplee
I can remember being able to talk myself into or out of just about anything.
Inertia seems to play the biggest role here for me. Inertia, the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest. Just knowing this is one of the fundamental principles of classical physics has bolstered my excuse making.
If I do not begin, I will not begin. If I have begun, I can persist.
It’s true that starting is the hardest part. But of course I have even used the excuse that once begun, when what I’m working towards didn’t come effortlessly, I’d pack it in.
If starting is the hardest part, why isn’t the rest of it easy?
Easy was never the answer. Sustainability is the only rational pursuit. All aspects of life require a degree of effort. For me, this area needs just a bit more.
I woke up this morning flooded with reasons to stay in bed.
Shit, January 1st is on a Wednesday. Can’t start on a Wednesday.
And so it goes, SIX more long days on the mindless holiday layover. Six more long days of not beginning.
I’m starting on Monday, the ever elusive Monday.
And my mind, that will formulate any reason to push off the beginning, threw this one at me today: isn’t there something bad about January 6th? It has some negative connotation right?
Oh GOD! What would it mean if I made January 6th the first day of the rest of my life?
Really, I will use any excuse available.
None of it matters, none of it is real.
If you’re six days in and fatigued, keep going, life requires effort. If it’s day one for you, welcome, no excuse should bar you from taking your first step.
It does get easier; it never gets easy.
That’s life.
Happy New Year
THIS WEEK’S EPISODE: Alan Levinovitz
In this week’s episode, Ethan talks to Professor Alan Levinovitz about his book Natural and the concept of health as a 21st century religious movement.
WATCH HERE
By Brandy Lewis
You know how you get so happy when your kids make friends? Or your husband? This episode was SO fun to listen to because I know Ethan (closeted philosopher) loved every second of it. For him to get the opportunity to sit and discuss what occupies the majority of his thoughts - health - and have it expanded upon philosophically into the realm of religion, I know, was a personal highlight.
Steven Van Zandt
Musician and actor Steven Van Zandt, member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, shares his inspiring story of losing 100 pounds.