The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

How language affects your fitness and weight loss practice?

Every day, we're barraged by good ideas, all the things we should be doing with our lives

and could start doing today if we really cared enough.

Too much advice can overwhelm us, and more importantly, it can inflate the power of should.

It can cement an insidious and, in my experience, ineffective framework in our

minds. We risk framing every choice, from work to pleasure, as an obligation. Doing so burdens

life with a constant sense of onus, constraint, and deprivation. Not exactly the stuff of grand

motivation. In my experience,

we aren't in for much fun or long-term success with that brand of approach. Luckily, there's a better

way to talk to ourselves. I'm not oblivious to the apparent irony here. Here I am offering a blog about

living a healthy life, and each day I offer information and strategies

to that end. But there's something to my very nature that still resists the authority of should,

or authority in general, and prefers a framework of option and example. It makes for some interesting

creative tension every day. I guess you could say it's why I'm so blunt about self-interest.

It's maybe why I prioritize publishing other stories

that highlight their appropriation of primal

and why I couch my whole interpretation and experience of health

within a loose blueprint that I flagrantly encourage people to make their own.

And it's perhaps why I spend ample time here deliberately ferreting out the slippery psychological

forces and individual nuances at work behind any endeavor to change one's life or lifestyle.

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