The 365 Commitment

Day 153 – Resistance = Strength

Any weightlifting advocate will tell you that the greater resistance that you can push or pull, the greater your strength will be. Your body’s muscles will respond to the resistance that it meets over time and grow accordingly. Assuming of course that the body has enough macro nutrients to grow. Incredible how applicable that statement is to the human mind, to your will power, to your desire to build long lasting good habits.

I am becoming increasingly convinced that the success of each day is not measured by one single gain, one single activity but rather the accumulation of consistently good habits. The thing to work on is to either 1. Add a new habit or 2. Improve how you accomplish the current set of habits.

I do not think it is possible for a person to understand this unless they have actually experienced the development of a long term set of habits. This is a complete mental shift. Success is not gained in a moment. Success is gained in a long series of investments made each and every day toward a common aim. When I made the 365 commitment, 152 days ago I had no idea how success would happen, I only had faith that it would.

I am finally seeing how that will materialize. I am not going to have this epiphany, revelation, or moment of clarity that defines my path. I am not going to finally reach the summit and see that the path down is easy smooth sailing. Instead I am going to face resistance to good, long lasting habits each and every day. Every morning and every night I am going to overcome this resistance and build strength.

Today I did 103 pushups, and the 103 pushup was hard and I collapsed in fatigue when it was done. I was thinking I cannot imagine doing 104, but tomorrow morning I will. You see I had the EXACT same thought when I accomplished 23 pushups. I could not imagine the 24th. Now I can do 50 pushups without even thinking about it. Simply amazing how the human body will design itself to meet the exact requirements of the resistance that it is facing.

So my mind is strong, strong enough to face the burden of the habits that I am developing. The point is that I need to be consistent, repetitive and increase the resistance each and every day. I have built that mind callus that I wrote about days ago.

Guy Reams (153)
365 Member

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