The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

You're like, okay, great, but it's a thousand miles.

That's so long that's gonna take me forever.

No, don't look at it like that.

Look at it like you showing up every day,

every day, every day taking one small step forward.

That's the thing most people won't do.

Most people will only get the kick in the pants

and start doing work when life falls apart.

Most people will only put that effort in

when they're sinking back down really close to failure

or when imagine you're in a body of water

and you start to drown.

So you're like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, okay.

Let me swim, let me swim.

I'm gonna get back to the surface.

I'm gonna do everything that I can do to live right now.

Then you put all this effort to getting back to the surface

so that you can live and eventually over time,

the same thing happens.

You stop putting so much effort in,

you start sliding back down

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