Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

Today I want to continue talking about making a change even when it feels hard.

It's worth discussing because we often underestimate how hard change really is.

An object in motion wants to stay in motion and we face inertia in our lives, not just in physics. We've been doing things our way for a long time.

It starts from the moment you wake up in the morning. We all have that moment where

we think the bed feels fantastic and why would we ever get up?

There's a great Marcus Aurelius quote about this that I love at dawn when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself, I have to go to work as a human

being. What do I have to complain of if I'm going to do what I was born for the things I was brought into the world to do?

Or is this what I was created for to huddle under the blankets and stay warm.

So you were born to feel nice.

Instead of doing things and experiencing them,

don't you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks,

putting the world in order as best they can, and you're not willing to do your job as a human being.

Why aren't you running to do what your nature demands?

You don't love yourself enough or you'd love your nature too

and what it demands of you.

Isn't that fantastic?

And he makes an important point.

When you think about the change you want to make, you know, it is hard. So you need to motivate

yourself the right way. Are you trying to use negative motivation? Are you telling yourself,

I want to do this because I hate how I am now? Stop it.

Negative motivation will run out fast because change takes time.

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